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This is your reminder to pause and reflect on your own wellbeing, and check in on those around you. Be it anxiety, depression, burnout, or just a general malaise, its important to stay intentional and proactive about nurturing a healthy mind. These 10 mental health books offer guidance and tips for cultivating inner peace, lasting joy, and emotional comfort. [Photo: The Next Big Idea Club] Taming the Molecule of More: A Step-by-Step Guide to Make Dopamine Work for You By Michael Long Dopamine, the molecule of more, is the chemical in our brains that drives us to seek out newer and better thingsthe latest gadget, the coolest job, the perfect partner. But for many of us, its easy to get stuck in a cycle of never being truly satisfied. Because dopamine can only promise happiness. It can never deliver. That part is up to us. Listen to the Book Bite summary, read by author Michael Long, or view on Amazon [Photo: The Next Big Idea Club] Healing the Modern Brain: Nine Tenets to Build Mental Fitness and Revitalize Your Mind By Drew Ramsey This essential guide explores the nine tenets vital to cultivating mental fitness and provides direct, actionable techniques to improve brain function and emotional health. Listen to the Book Bite summary, read by author Drew Ramsey, or view on Amazon [Photo: The Next Big Idea Club] Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance By Laura Delano The powerful memoir of one womans experience with psychiatric diagnoses and medications, and her journey to discover herself outside the mental health industry. Listen to the Book Bite summary, read by author Laura Delano, or view on Amazon [Photo: The Next Big Idea Club] Ordinary Magic: The Science of How We Can Achieve Big Change with Small Acts By Gregory Walton Discover simple psychological shifts that build trust, belonging, and confidencefrom the codirector of the Dweck-Walton Lab at Stanford University. Listen to the Book Bite summary, read by author Gregory Walton, or view on Amazon [Photo: The Next Big Idea Club] The Narrowing: A Journey Through Anxiety and the Body By Alexandra Shaker An exploration of the connection between anxiety and the body by a clinical psychologist, drawing from the latest research as well as historical and cultural insights through time, arguing that only through understanding anxietys role in our lives can we transform it into resilience. Listen to the Book Bite summary, read by author Alexandra Shaker, or view on Amazon [Photo: The Next Big Idea Club] Validation: How the Skill Set That Revolutionized Psychology Will Transform Your Relationships, Increase Your Influence, and Change Your Life By Caroline Fleck How the science of seeing and being seen is the key to inner and interpersonal transformation. Listen to the Book Bite summary, read by author Caroline Fleck, or view on Amazon [Photo: The Next Big Idea Club] How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion By Yung Pueblo Love enters our lives in many forms: friends, family, intimate partners. But all of these relationships are deeply influenced by the love we have for ourselves. If we see our relationships as opportunities to be fully present in our healing and growth, then, Yung Pueblo assures us, we can transform and meet one another with compassion instead of judgment. Listen to the Book Bite summary, read by author Yung Pueblo, or view on Amazon [hoto: The Next Big Idea Club] How Do You Feel?: One Doctors Search for Humanity in Medicine By Jessi Gold A poignant and thought-provoking memoir following one psychiatrist and four of her patients as they deal with the unspoken mental and physical costs of caring for others. Listen to the Book Bite summary, read by author Jessi Gold, or view on Amazon [Photo: The Next Big Idea Club] The Grief Cure: Looking for the End of Loss By Cody Delistraty In this lyrical and moving story of the world of prolonged grief, journalist Cody Delistraty reflects on his experience with loss and explores what modern science, history, and literature reveal about the nature of our relationship to grief and our changing attitudes toward its cure. Listen to the Book Bite summary, read by author Cody Delistraty, or view on Amazon [Photo: The Next Big Idea Club] How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists By Ellen Hendriksen Are you your own toughest critic? Learn to be good to yourself with this clear and compassionate guide. Listen to the Book Bite summary, read by author Ellen Hendriksen, or view on Amazon This article originally appeared in Next Big Idea Club magazine and is reprinted with permission.
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Youd be forgiven for forgetting that there was a time when Microsoft Edge was basically the web browser that opened when you accidentally clicked a link that didnt default to opening in Chrome or Firefox. But something shifted in 2020 when Microsoft switched Edges digital drivetrain to Chromium, the technology that powers the Google Chrome browser and others like it. Edge suddenly shed its awkward skin and emerged as a genuinely competentnay, pleasantbrowsing experience. And if you use Edge during your workday, there are some wonderfully useful time-savers built right into its core. Here are the ones I find most excellent. Split Screen: 2 for the price of one Want to browse to your hearts content while keeping an eye on your email? Try a neat little Edge feature called “Split Screen.” Click on the three little dots in the upper-right corner and select this menu option, and the browser will split into two panes and you can open different sites. It even handles multiple tabs for each pane as well. It’s perfect for always-on email, social media, or anything you need to keep a constant watch over without disrupting your main workflow. It’s like having a mini-browser within your browser and is especially helpful if youre working off a laptop without multiple monitors to plug into. Collections: Your digital idea board If you often find yourself researching something, opening a few dozen tabs, and then realizing youll need to revisit all of them later . . . then you and I are kindred, unorganized spirits. Yes, bookmarks exist, but they’re meant to be reasonably permanent and theyre a bit clunky for quick idea gathering. “Collections,” on the other hand, act like digital project managers for you to reference later. Click the three-dot menu and choose Collections to get started. You can drag and drop links, images, even snippets of text into a themed collection. Planning a trip? Researching a new gadget? Building a shopping list? Collections keep it all tidy and easily accessible. Imagine: actual organization! Performance Settings: Nobody likes a laggy browser Even the best browser can bog down the beefiest system when you have a gazillion tabs open and a dozen extensions running, and you’re streaming 4K resolution video. Edge’s “Performance” settings section is a quiet hero. It aims to save CPU, RAM, and battery by saving system resources, including a handy feature that puts inactive tabs to sleep. It doesn’t close them, but rather simply pauses them, freeing up resources for stuff youre actively working on. You can enable and tweak various efficiency features in Settings > System and Performance. Your CPU fan will thank you. Web Capture: Screenshots made simple If ever youre feeling down about the state of the world, just know that its never been a better, easier era to grab screenshots. So theres that. What once involved a delicate dance of Print Screen, pasting into Paint, cropping, and then realizing you missed a pixel is now as easy as right-clicking in the open space of a web page, selecting “Screenshot,” and grabbing what you need. You can grab a specific area, the full page, or exactly what you see in the browser. You can annotate directly on the capture, too. Shopping Features: Save some bucks, save some time I’m not usually one for built-in shopping assistants, but Edge’s are surprisingly unobtrusive and genuinely helpful. If youre on a site that sells stuff, look for a blue price tag icon to appear on the right-hand side of the address bar. Click it, and the feature can automatically find coupons, compare prices, show you historical price trends, and let you track the item and get alerted if it goes on sale. It’s like having a miniature, nonjudgmental personal shopper living in your browser.
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Like all awkward workplace conversations, a compassionate and direct approach is best. Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Companys work-life advice column hosted by deputy editor Kathleen Davis.
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