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Improving your sleep can also increase mindfulness

Sleep is a critical part of survival and plays a heavy role in how people function throughout their day. Making matters worse, the average person has plenty of things competing for their attention and making them lose concentration. Now, a team of researchers from the University of South Florida has discovered that quality and duration of sleep can boost a person’s mindfulness.

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Is spirituality a component of wisdom?

Wisdom has gained increasing interest among researchers over the last few decades as a biologically based personality trait relevant to physical well-being and mental health.

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Mindfulness may help you become a nicer person.

Mindfulness — the practice of staying attuned to what’s happening in the present moment — is a bonafide health trend right now, and for good reason. Research suggests it can reduce stress, help with problem drinking, lower blood sugar levels and help people succeed at work. Now, according to a new study, it may even help you become a nicer person.

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Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence

The ability to navigate social systems efficiently is critical to our species. Bullshitting, a style of communication characterised by an intent to be convincing or impressive without concern for the truth, is ubiquitous within human societies.

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