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    When we hear the term “ADHD” we often immediately think of that kid in the classroom who can listen, can’t stop throwing paper balls across the room, bothering other children and essentially disrupting the entire class. But what if this interpretation is wrong? What if there is an upside to ADHD?   Many successful entrepreneurs have reported having ADHD. “We noticed sometime that some symptoms of ADHD resemble […]

        Albert Einstein once said, “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”   Many of us are struggling to survive the chaos. We live day to day, unsure of what to expect at any moment, and ready for the other shoe to drop. Trust seems like an ever-fleeting concept, and divisiveness lurks […]

A wise man once said to me, “Stop in the middle of whatever you are doing, because when you return to it, you’ll be that much farther ahead.”   It seemed like an absurd idea, sort of like walking out of a movie before the ending. Things left unfinished. No resolution. No closure, only questions.   “But you see,” he continued, “that is exactly why you need to stop in […]

  There is something unique about the effect dogs have on us. Often, dogs teach us, their lessons revealing a part of ourselves that we might have known existed – and we are better for it.   According to a team of animal behaviour experts and psychologists the University of Lincoln, UK, and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, dogs don’t simply display learned behaviors. Instead, they are responding to the […]

    In life, there are some basic tenets. We will all die. The sun will rise every morning. Species will adapt to environmental cues. We will all have to face hardship at some point in our lives. These are things that we cannot change and there is comfort in knowing that certainty exists around us.   But what is not certain is how we perceive the world around us. […]

“People often make decisions that are influenced by emotions that have nothing to do with the decisions they are making,” says Stéphane Côté, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.   According to Côté, we fall prey to our biases all the time. We may be excited about an upcoming vacation and decide that now is the time to make that investment we’ve been pondering. Or […]