Delayed gratification is being able to trade your present happiness for a greater amount of future happiness and if you’re anything like the rest of humanity, you’re probably terrible at it. We live in a world with soaring consumer debt, rising rates of drug addiction, worsening mental health, an...

Reflect on how you need to recharge—and, more than that, how doing good work depends on it:

• How much you value resting your mind so you can do better, more creative work later.
• How your focus will benefit from this attention break.
• How many great ideas come while...

• Focused: when you're very focused on solving the problem in front of you. But this also clamps down on unconventional and creative solutions
• Distracted: when you’re unfocused and your mind wanders, because you’re relaxed. This engages the autopilo...