Show Your Love to People You Care About

This technique involves thinking about what you value most in life, then imagine losing that thing.
This was a common practice for the Stoics. This includes not only exposing us to the inevitable losses we may suffer in life but also enabling us to appreciate the people and things we lo...

Question for you, what is your favorite word in the universe?

It’s your name. Same for everyone else.

So start remembering names.

Firstly, if you don’t know someone’s name, it becomes blatantly apparent within seconds, and that’s bad if you should know it.

Second, names...

Being cc’ed on an email or invited to an instant message group is a new opportunity for you to look at who’s in the “room”—and introduce yourself.

• Reply directly to the message sender with a compliment.
• Identify someone with a shared background to you and tell them, “...