positive thinking

A study released earlier this year shows that there are some mindset hacks revolving around total self-improvement that can help you make healthier choices in life.
If you’ve been finding it difficult to make healthy lifestyle changes, you’re not alone. That frustration can wreck your self-confidence and make it even harder to do what you need to do for your own benefit. Most people know that leading a sedentary lifestyle is unhealthy and that they need to get moving, but being told not to do so … well, it can be off-putting.

To say that poor people don’t have enough hope, tenacity and aspiration is to deny their agency as well as the size of the structural odds they face. (OD Op-ed) — In a recent article in the New York Times, the development economist Seema Jayachandran discusses three studies that used Randomised Controlled Trials (or RCTs) to understand the benefits of […]

People who stress out about getting old are more likely to be diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease, scientists are warning. Researchers have found middle-aged people who dread their senior years are more likely to have dementia-like changes to their brain years later. On the other hand, those who think positively about their inevitable aging are less likely to be diagnosed.