In a typical office environment, workers are interrupted approximately every three minutes by digital notifications, colleague requests, or their own wandering minds. Research from the University of ...

Emotional Intelligence (EI) took the world by storm in 1995 when popular science writer, Daniel Goleman, first published his successful book of the same name. It was initially referred to as EQ as a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dilan Gomih is a well-being expert focused on workplace performance. Feeling increasingly distracted? New data suggests it’s not ...

Let's start with some facts: Seventy-percent of people say they have a problem paying attention. The average attention span is eight seconds. After reading this sentence, it’s likely that you’re going ...

By making modest adjustments to promote attention at home and at school, we can strengthen our ability to concentrate.

Even without retreating to the desert, we can train our wandering minds with ancient monastic wisdom. “The question of focus,” argues Benedictine historian Columba Stewart, “is the single most ...