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Sunday, 13 October 2024 04:40

'How much sleep is too much?': Ask a doctor

Exceeding a certain number of hours per night could have negative effects, says sleep specialist Sleep is known to have amazing health benefits – but how much shuteye is too much? The answer isn’t so straightforward, Dr. Chris Winter, a Virginia-based neurologist and sleep medicine specialist with Mattress Firm, told Fox News Digital. "This is to some degree an impossible question to answer," he wrote. As with food and other lifestyle factors, Winter explained that the ideal amount of sleep is a "dynamic range." "What is too much food for me might be an amazingly inadequate amount for an Olympic…
Benjamin Laker Leaders who demonstrate high emotional intelligence (EI) are often praised for their ability to empathize, communicate, and navigate complex interpersonal dynamics. But like any powerful tool, emotional intelligence can be misused. While EI can foster trust, collaboration, and a positive work environment, it can also be weaponized to manipulate, control, and exploit teams. When wielded by the wrong hands, emotional intelligence turns toxic, creating an environment where manipulation masquerades as care and control hides behind the guise of connection. The question is: how do you tell the difference between authentic leadership and emotional exploitation? Emotional Intelligence as a…
Mark Travers Mental models are cognitive frameworks or representations that help individuals understand and interpret the world around them. They are the mental shortcuts or simplified versions of reality that people use to process information, make decisions and solve problems. Mental models influence how we perceive situations, predict outcomes and decide on courses of action. Here are two essential mental models for making intelligent decisions and how to use them effectively. 1. Probabilistic Thinking Probabilistic thinking is a mental model that involves making decisions based on the likelihood of various outcomes rather than certainty. Instead of thinking in absolute terms…
Without a doubt, Moses is definitely one of the Old Testament Bible's most well-known characters. He's connected to a whole load of prominent, often-cited biblical events like defying Pharoah Ramses II, leading the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt, parting the Red Sea, retrieving the Ten Commandments, and was played by a grandly-bearded Charlton Heston in that old film epic of the same name, 1956's "The Ten Commandments." Folks with a bit more biblical knowledge might remember his retrieval from a basket in a river as a baby, or an incident like the one when a staff transformed into a…
We recently shared a Reddit thread about where people's former childhood bullies ended up later in life. This prompted BuzzFeed Community users to tell us about what happened to their former school bullies once they became adults. The stories were pretty interesting. Here's what people shared: 1. "I was bullied throughout school, all the way from elementary through high school. One particular bully called my parents one day out of the blue, apologizing for what he'd done. It turns out he went into the military, and I guess getting bullied during training made him realize what an a-hole he was.…
Tuesday, 01 October 2024 04:41

Lasting change starts with leaders

Shani Harmon For every good reason to change the way we work, there are dozens of excuses for why not to. In the decades I’ve been trying to help organizations work in ways that produce joy and productivity, I have encountered every possible type of resistance. It seems inconceivable that individuals wouldn’t make small changes to their behavior in service of a better workday. Especially when those changes have been proven to lead to more efficient and effective collaboration. But yet, what we see time and again is initial excitement turning into cynicism when back in the day-to-day. Team members…
Getting older and living a long life is a privilege, but that doesn't mean aging is a walk in the park. When Redditor u/Fainne-Wu asked Reddit community members to share the hardest parts about aging, the responses were extremely insightful. Here are some of the hardest truths about aging that you might have never thought about or realized: 1. "I miss living with my parents. I miss seeing my mom every day. I live across the world from her now, and although we call each other every day, it's just not the same." —u/vicklelikespickles 2. "For me, it's losing that…
Zoe Williams The Traitors has shown just how adept some people are at lying. Here, an ex-FBI agent, a psychologist and a fraud investigator share their best tips for detecting dishonesty Twenty-two people in a castle, Claudia Winkleman hamming it up like crazy, a number of silly challenges, a chunk of money sitting at the centre, almost glowing, and human nature laid bare. To try to pick apart exactly what makes The Traitors so compelling would be to miss the point, like trying to analyse the ingredients in a Krispy Kreme doughnut. As enjoyable as it is, though, the show…
Megan Sauer The next time you catch yourself nodding along to something you disagree with, stop and calmly enter the argument instead. That’s advice from Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Learning how to effectively disagree — without simply saying “no” — can strengthen your relationships and make you more persuasive, Grant recently told the “What Now? with Trevor Noah” podcast. “So often, people are told, ‘Just compromise. Pick your battles in relationships,’ that they end up treating them as fragile,” said Grant, in an episode that published on August 15. Then,…
Friday, 27 September 2024 04:36

The urgent call for more humane leaders

Matthew Smith While the business press tends to focus attention on macro strategic forces such as AI, geopolitics, and climate change, one of the biggest trends among experts in leadership development today is perhaps surprisingly a focus on building deeper, more “human” capacities. The call for leaders to embrace their humanity is not new. Next year will mark the thirtieth anniversary of Daniel Goleman’s book Emotional Intelligence, which popularized competencies such as self-regulation, empathy, and social skills as critical to leadership success. More recently, however, many leading thinkers on leadership development have suggested the need for leaders to undertake even…
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October 12, 2024

DisCos rake in N140bn extra revenue in 3 months from Band A tariff hike

The Nigerian Electricity Distribution Company (NERC) has stated that revenue generated by the 11 electricity…
October 11, 2024

Atiku slams Tinubu over latest petrol price hike, calls president trending nickname

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, mocked President Bola Tinubu over the president’s handling…
October 13, 2024

'How much sleep is too much?': Ask a doctor

Exceeding a certain number of hours per night could have negative effects, says sleep specialist…
October 12, 2024

Woman becomes Police officer to catch father’s killer, arrests him 25 years after

A Brazilian woman who dedicated her life to catching her father‘s killer managed to finally…
October 13, 2024

US indicts Air Peace’s boss Onyema of money laundering, obstruction of justice

Allen Onyema, chief executive officer (CEO) of Air Peace, has been charged by the US…
October 13, 2024

What to know after Day 962 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russia to rebuild everything destroyed in Donbass, Novorossiya — Putin Russia will create…
October 12, 2024

How doctors use AI to help patients

Silicon Valley CEOs and UBI-advocates and others have warned us for a while now that…
September 22, 2024

Dubois knocks down, knocks out Joshua to retain IBF heavyweight world title

In an astonishing upset, Daniel Dubois delivered a career-defining performance, defeating former two-time world heavyweight…

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