How do you get to Carnegie Hall? According to the old joke, “practice, practice, practice.” While it may sound like good advice, it’s not the best or fastest path because practice can only get you so ...

Today's context for higher education presents student affairs with many challenges. Among these are new technologies, changing student demographics, demands for greater accountability, concern about ...

One of the best ways to increase our own happiness is to do things that make other people happy. In countless studies, kindness and generosity have been linked to greater life satisfaction, stronger ...

All musicians have a different approach to becoming their very best, but whatever your practice, it will inevitably include some version of running scales. There is a great deal of tedium in being ...

All my life I had been using practice swings, and the more I thought about why, the less sense it made. Sometimes I’d do two practice swings. Sometimes one. I hit good shots after bad-feeling practice ...

One of the great questions of our lives is "how do I want to live?" Psychological scientists increasingly focus on three different visions of a good life. First, a life of happiness tends to be ...

Does a practice swing really help you, or does it do more harm than good by causing you to overthink the shot in front of you? While there are different opinions and debates over the topic, I ...

Cell culture is an essential component of most biological and biomedical research. Many experiments are launched in vitro in culture before moving to animal models. Cell culture, and ever more complex ...