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You’ve heard of “mindfulness,” but how do you incorporate it into your life?

Expert advice on rewiring your thinking for an achievement and confidence mindset to smash your career goals and excel in your personal life.

Often, we limit ourselves without even realizing it. This is the plight of the modern entrepreneur. 

Many successful professionals struggle to enjoy their accomplishments. Our brains’ reward system, especially the neurotransmitter dopamine, drives us to achieve goals and rewards us with a great sense of pleasure when we do. But that pleasure is short lived, as our brains are hardwired to also seek balance from extreme emotional states. That leaves us with an empty longing to repeat whatever experience brought us that pleasure in the first place. This ostensibly addictive cycle throws our “enoughness” barometers completely out of whack, preventing us from being able to objectively gauge if what we’ve achieved is, in fact, satisfying. That’s why, although most of us intuitively know that happiness isn’t realized from the pursuit of money, status, or fame, we can’t stop ourselves from trying. If you really want lasting satisfaction in life, you’ll need to relearn your approach to finding it. The author presents several strategies.

People and industries measure how productive they are in similar ways. This extended period of remote work for many has revealed how flawed that can be.

PayPal CEO Dan Schulman shared some of the career lessons he's learned from a lifetime of practicing Krav Maga in an interview with The New York Times.