With wedding season just around the corner, it may be useful to brush up on a few unspoken rules of the process. As a guest, you may assume that your main job is to show up and bring a suitable gift. But, there’s a few more things in the fine print that can help you […]
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The Biggest Mistakes Parents Are Making With Their Kids Moving Back Home
Just when you thought you could toast to having an empty nest and let those tears of joy or sadness flow, your adult child calls you with some news. It could be work instability, a big break up, or crippling homesickness that is making your over 18 bundle of joy move back home, but they […]
These Mistakes Are Weakening Your Immune System- Get Rid of These Bad Habits Today
With COVID-19 cases rising with each passing day, having a good immune system holds immense importance. Sure, it might be just two fluids swimming around your body, namely blood and lymph. But, given the circumstances, they are the only things keeping you alive and healthy. While these two fluids are hard at work protecting your body […]
The biggest mistakes you’re making with essential oils
Whether you’re using essential oils on your house or yourself, there’s a right way and a wrong way to use them. And if you want to get the most out of them, it’s important to know what not to do. Luckily, Apartment Therapy has investigated all the most common errors so you don’t get it […]
Research examines how mistakes can make people ‘tune out’
Failure may not be the great teacher that conventional wisdom says it is. New research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business finds that, contrary to common belief, people learn less from failure than from success. “Our society celebrates failure as a teachable moment,” write the study’s authors, Prof. Ayelet Fishbach and postdoctoral […]
‘Error neurons’ play role in how brain processes mistakes
New research from Cedars-Sinai has identified neurons that play a role in how people recognize errors they make, a discovery that may have implications for the treatment of conditions including obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia. Catching even small errors, such as making a typo while writing a letter, is a critical executive function that allows us […]