That relentless drive to stay busy might actually be sabotaging your productivity. While our culture celebrates constant motion and perpetual optimization, emerging research suggests that deliberately ...

My son has a Zen calligraphy over his bed that says, "Doing Nothing Is Something." He’s a middle schooler who sleeps a lot, fantasizes about baseball, and chats for hours about “nothing” with friends.

Doing nothing may sound simple, but experts say it can be an intentional way to reduce stress and improve your health too. While constant busyness may feel like a valuable norm, failing to slow down ...

In the midst of financial news that seems to get grimmer by the day, one story of a man trying to escape caught my eye. Andrew Formica, the 51-year-old CEO of a $68 billion investment firm, abruptly ...

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“I’m so busy doing nothing, I don’t have time to do anything.” Does that sentence resonate with you? When I was working fulltime, I managed to accomplish a lot. I not only put in eight hours a day at ...

Imagine you bought a basket of stocks 10 years ago and then you didn’t trade them, not even to rebalance. You just let ‘em sit. How would you have done? I try to answer that question and offer some ...

My journey included failed acquisitions, partnerships gone wrong, perpetual self-doubt, deaths in the family, corporate buy-outs, brutal market competition, and a complete disruption of industry ...