Listening requires mental work

Behavior change is hard, because we become comfortable with our patterns. It up takes a great deal of mental energy until it becomes habit.

Intermittent fasting challenges the “three meals a day plus snacks” style of eating we are so accustomed to, in which it’s easy to feel like you...

Having goals and systems in place can make a task feel deceptively easy. The downward slide:

• If you work hard at becoming great at something, your hard work can pay off where you become good at that thing.
• Now that you're great you might relax and not put in that m...

Many people wonder how a desk job can be so mentally tiring. The ego-depletion theory states that there is a limited amount of mental energy which we consume while sitting and working, just like a gas tank guzzles up all the gas till it’s empty.

This theory is being challe...