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Breaking through loneliness to build connections and enhance well-being.

Resilience has become such an overused and celebrated concept that it can become a cop-out, both for individuals and leaders dealing with people one on one, and for organizations in the way they treat groups of people. When it comes to people from marginalized groups, assuming that the hardships they have experienced creates thick skin is insensitive and othering. Leaders and organizations will be more successful if they stop assuming people in a group have similar abilities to bounce back from adversity and recognize that even people within a group have significant differences.

Research shows that people suffering from emotional exhaustion experience higher levels of work-life conflict. They may find that they have less patience to engage with family and friends at the end of the day and become frustrated with them more easily — a problem that is exacerbated by the current Covid-19 crisis. That’s why it’s important to remember to pay attention to your emotional energy and note when reserves run low. Learn what factors tend to drain them and experiment with ways to reduce the strain. Fix what you can, and learn how to more effectively handle what you can’t. Think about what values and qualities drive you and practice being centered and present for short periods of time to create more experiences of joy and connection.

Salon spoke to animal behavior experts and scientists about what dogs think about (and do) when we're away

4 min read// If your thoughts are pure, your intentions will be pure, and so your actions

4 min read// To bring happiness and peace into your life you need to act, not just dream about them.

Practicing relationship skills and offering support without hovering helps.

Playing responsive games with infants and toddlers encourages healthy development.

It’s the most complete 3D model of its kind, featuring 3,016 neurons and all 548,000 connections between them.

5 min read// Our imperfections provide unexpected opportunities for growth and connection.

3 min read// It has been two months since the public launch of AI chatbot ChatGPT by the firm OpenAI - and it did not take long for people to start noticing what a game-changer this really is.

These collaborations aren’t the first of their kind, but signal luxury brands want a new crop of customers.