The First Draft

The first words you write are the first draft. Writing is thinking. You'll rarely know what exactly you want to say when you start writing.

The time you put into editing, reworking and refining turns your first draft into a second draft, and then into a third. If you keep refining it o...

While anxiety is normal when you first identify a threat, it's not helpful when you're trying to solve a problem.

• Worrying makes us feel bad, that can cloud our judgment.
• When we worry, it takes a lot of mental effort to sto...

• Known as the First-Night Effect, many of us aren’t able to sleep properly at a new place the first time.
• The reason for this, according to research, is that half our brain (the left hemisphere, mostly) stays awake in alert mode. This area of the brain is called the defau...