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Meditation Makes People Feel Better. Can It Help You Work Smarter, Too?
Businessweek: Meditating can ease stress, insomnia, and depression and may even help ward off disease. Now there’s evidence it can produce better business decisions. A new study suggests meditating can help business people change course
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Mindfulness Meditation May Improve Decision Making
A focused 15-minute focused-breathing meditation may help to counteract the deep-rooted sunk cost bias.
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Gordon Gekko on Handling Other People’s Money
In a scene from the 2010 film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, financial trader Gordon Gekko — played by Michael Douglas — defines moral hazard as a situation in which “somebody takes your money and
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1 Big Money-Saving Secret Everyone Needs To Know
Forbes: Trying to buy a house? Save for retirement? Finally pay off your student loans? Then you know that saving thousands of dollars doesn’t happen overnight. And you also know that your good intentions (“This
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Is Your Impatience Costing You?
US News & World Report: Impatience, it turns out, can be costly. Research suggests that people who opt for smaller rewards today over bigger rewards later tend to have lower credit scores. In the study
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New Year’s Resolutions and the Fear of Losing Money
The New Yorker: To commit to a New Year’s resolution is to gamble. Gym memberships and weight-loss programs are expensive, but they’re good investments if they bring health and happiness. Unfortunately, as I learned eight