Fourteen minutes of negative news increases anxiety and sadness — Listening to the news is exhausting us. Watching only 14 minutes of negative news increased anxiety, sadness, and the tendency to catastrophic a personal worry, according to a 2011 study by Psychologists Wendy M. Johnston and Graham C. L. Davey. And you’re definitely watching more than 14 minutes. A 2017…

Here are dozens of ways to escape without leaving home — In quarantine, vacation days seem like a relic from another era. If you’ll only be journeying from one end of your apartment to the other, why bother? Especially if you had to cancel an actual vacation — your big family camping trip, or that beach getaway with your best friends…

Pros, cons, and why you should probably write on both — I started writing on Medium with no know-how in January 2020. I committed: I woke up every day at 6 a.m. before work, made an excessively large coffee, and wrote until 7:30 a.m. Sometimes I’d write after work, and I’d always make time on the weekends. …

A complete example of how to apply this productivity technique to writing — When you write, you admit to having something to say. And you admit it’s worthy of someone’s time. Because of this, when you sit down to put words on a page and end up with nothing, it’s not because of lacking capability or knowledge. It’s because of insecurity, or fear…

What impact have you had on your readers? — Do you ever write a phenomenal blog, social post, or piece of content (or so you think) and it makes zero traction? You stare at your analytics page, thinking wtf? You’re probably frustrated. You think you wrote a great piece, yet you’re still not seeing the engagement you hoped for. …

These 5 techniques — here’s how you replicate it. — Let’s talk about this phenomenal email. In addition to a 39.5% open rate (compared to the industry average of 21%), this email went viral on social media: people screenshot it to share on LinkedIn, Twitter, Messenger, Facebook.

Sounding smart and being smart are different — and both are important. — My roommate lucked out on placing an internship with one of Canada’s top criminal defence lawyers (let’s call him John). …

Let’s redefine what being a feminist really means. — Can you believe I’m about to tell you how to be a feminist? No, I can’t either. Am I throwing myself to the wolves or falling back into a trust circle of like-minded and curious individuals? Ideally the latter, but you decide. As we talk about International Women’s Day, I…

If you hate feminism, this is for you. If you’re a feminist, this is definitely for you. — Feminism is important. If you cringe ever so slightly at that statement, this is for you. If feminism angers you, this is for you. If feminism confuses you, don’t worry — it confuses many — and this is for you. …