Belle Beth Cooper
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How To Find Your Optimal Work Environment And Boost Productivity
There’s no shortage of productivity techniques to try, but optimal productivity comes in different states for everyone. Some people are morning larks and others night owls, some need silence while others need music. If you’re struggling to improve your own workflow, here are three areas to start experimenting with.
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How We Store Memories In Other Peoples’ Heads
I have a pretty unreliable memory. Far too often I find people saying to me, “I told you this already!” I also tend to rely on other people to remember things for me — in fact, group transactional memory, the process of storing information in other people’s heads, is more common than you think.
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The History Of The To-Do List (And How To Make Yours More Effective)
When I was a kid, I read a book called The Listmaker. It’s about a young girl who uses lists to organise and make sense of her life. At the time, I didn’t read any more into it besides the fact that this was an odd hobby for a pre-teen girl to spend so much…
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The Science Behind Posture And How It Affects Your Brain
I’ll confess up front: I have terrible posture. It’s been bad since at least high school. It’s one of those things I keep in the back of my mind as something I know I should do but never get around to, like eating more vegetables and sending more postcards.