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Psychology says people who become noticeably calmer in their 50s and 60s aren't usually losing their edge or giving up??? they've simply stopped spending energy defending a version of themselves they no longer need to be
42+ min ago (1039+ words) Daniel Moran is a writer at Silicon Canals covering technology, psychology, and culture. The battles we pick in middle age reveal less about principle than about who we thought we had to prove ourselves to. My father once spent twenty…...
Microsoft Japan gave roughly 2,300 employees five consecutive Fridays off in August 2019 without cutting their pay??? and sales per employee came in 39.9% higher than the same month a year earlier. The experiment also forced a rethink of wasted work: 30-minute meetings became 46% more common, while employees increasingly replaced meetings with online collaboration.
4+ hour, 55+ min ago (1135+ words) Edited by Lachlan Brown Microsoft Japan's 39.9% sales-per-employee comparison was real, but the company said the trial did not cause it alone. The meeting redesign is the experiment's more direct lesson. In August 2019, Microsoft Japan closed its offices every Friday and…...
Across 25 experiments, people told to imagine another person's perspective became less accurate about what that person thought, not more, while people who were simply allowed to ask them got substantially better
11+ hour, 17+ min ago (945+ words) Edited by Graeme Brown Empathy's most popular trick—imagining yourself in someone else's shoes—backfired spectacularly in 25 studies; simply asking them what they thought worked far better. The standard item on every list of this kind is to put yourself…...
The quietest sign someone has done real inner work in their sixties isn't calmness, it's that they no longer need to explain themselves to people who were never going to understand anyway
7+ hour, 41+ min ago (1102+ words) Edited by Justin Brown Calmness can be performed. The absence of an explanation cannot. What real inner work looks like in later life, and why it gets mistaken for something else. The clearest sign that someone has done real work…...
In a cohort of more than 10,000 civil servants, low control over your own work predicted coronary heart disease with an odds ratio of 1.93, while how demanding the job was showed no significant association at all
11+ hour, 12+ min ago (986+ words) What kills you at work isn't the pressure—it's the powerlessness. The premise of the question is that stress management is a skill, that successful people have more of it, and that the skill is what can be copied. It…...
In studies mapping where people will let others touch them, across five European countries and then Britain and Japan, the best predictor was the strength of the current relationship, and neither study measured anyone's childhood
11+ hour, 34+ min ago (933+ words) Edited by Graeme Brown How close you let someone get has less to do with your past than with the person standing in front of you right now. The format of the question promises a list of causes, arranged in…...
Across 42 countries and 17,409 parents, the strongest predictor of parental burnout was not income, inequality or hours of childcare but how individualistic the culture was, with Poland and Belgium highest and Thailand and Cuba lowest
11+ hour, 47+ min ago (989+ words) Western cultures that prize independence over interdependence leave parents uniquely depleted, suggesting the problem may lie less in what parents do than in the societies they inhabit. The premise is that the knowledge is already there and the energy is…...
When the average income of a person's reference group doubles, their spending on visible goods falls by roughly half at the same personal income, which makes conspicuous consumption a signal about relative position rather than a reliable tell for wealth
12+ hour, 47+ min ago (840+ words) Edited by Graeme Brown What you spend on designer bags and luxury cars reveals far less about your wealth than about who you're trying to impress. The premise of every list of this kind is that certain habits are reliable…...
Older adults who feared confirming the stereotype that they cannot manage technology were using computers less a year and a half later, while the reverse did not hold, which puts the adaptation problem somewhere other than in the person
13+ hour, 7+ min ago (762+ words) When older adults internalize stereotypes about their tech abilities, they withdraw from digital tools entirely—suggesting the real barrier isn't resistance but the weight of expectation itself. The way the question is usually put contains its own answer. Older people…...
In 55 improvisation classes at The Second City, students told that their goal was to feel awkward held their focus longer and took more risks than students given the standard instruction, which is a different thing from learning to tolerate discomfort
14+ hour, 2+ min ago (869+ words) Edited by Graeme Brown A simple reframing—pursue discomfort rather than endure it—fundamentally changes how people engage with challenging tasks, new research shows. Most advice about getting comfortable with discomfort is really advice about endurance. Tolerate the bad feeling,…...