Friday Video: TED Talk – Pico Iyer’s latest focus is on yet another overlooked aspect of travel: how can it help us regain our sense of stillness and focus in a world where our devices and digital networks increasing distract us?

Life is a rocky road, no question about that. It is filled with successes and failures. Usually, we do not have issues with success. It is failure that bogs us down. How to deal with failures in life when they come? Can they truly represent a learning tool? This article will provide some answers to these questions.

Are we all hiding our inner self? Is it right? Should we be afraid to expose our inner selves?

Step away from comparing yourself to others. Period. If someone exhibits a behavior you admire, work on adopting it for yourself, but don’t judge yourself for not already having that behavior.

Friday Video: TED Talk – Is there something you’ve always meant to do, wanted to do, but just … haven’t? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days.

Do you seek approval constantly? Do you depend on others for your self esteem? How approval seeking increases your worry and anxiety? People especially children, teens, and young adults seek approval constantly and many worry that they won’t get it. People want to be liked and they want to fit in with their group. Peer pressure is one of the main reasons of approval seeking, which usually causes many people excessive worry and anxiety if they don’t…

Friday Video: TED Talk – Behncke Izquierdo (a TED Fellow) shows how bonobo ape society learns from constantly playing and is key to problem solving. Can it work for humans?

Friday Video: TED Talk – Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for twentysomethings: Contrary to popular belief, your 20s are not a throwaway decade.