By Eve Hogan I was once working with a group of teenagers discussing “integrity agreements,” which I described as “either spoken or unspoken agreements not to hurt each other.” These integrity agreements are the fabric of our society. This belief, that we won’t harm each other, is what allows us to walk down the street without worrying about getting shot…
If you’re like us, you’re fascinated with memory—how it works, how to improve it, even how to deal with traumatic memories. Rewire Me explores these topics and more in these memorable articles: 1. Music and Memory: Why Some Songs Mean So Much to Us. How songs affect us depends on when we first hear them. 2. 6 Memory-Boosting Strategies That…
Love is in the air this week, and it’s time to honor those you care about. While Valentine’s Day is a good time to focus on rewiring your relationships, we’re fans of thinking about how to improve ours year-round—and we’ve found that Twitter is a great resource for finding advice and insights. Here are seven of our favorite relationship experts to…
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Laurie Davis, author of Love@First Click and founder of eFlirt Expert, and picked her brain for dating and relationship advice. For those of you looking to rewire your relationships, check out this video for some great tips on how to break negative patterns and move forward to a healthier, happier love…
We’re celebrating our 6-month anniversary with a second look at the most popular articles on the site so far. Check them out and let us know which is your favorite! Rewiring Hate. To a degree, we’re wired to identify enemies and hate them. But to an even greater degree, we’re wired not to hate, to accept ambivalence and embrace com- plexity. In other words,…
A few years back, my spouse and I started a walking regimen, regularly taking a nightly constitutional and catching up on the day. It was an easy way to get exercise and reconnect. We walked through the college campus near our home, trading stories about our days. During one of those walks my spouse recounted a phone call from that…
For a long time, neuroscientists have regarded video games as a form of brain candy. Played in excess, they were thought to erode short-term memory and attention span, and lead to other kinds of mental decay. And it’s been well documented that multitaskers—particularly older multitaskers—perform worse on cognitive tasks than those who live by the old Zen adage of “eat…
