A Few Steps I’ve Used to Navigate Presentations as a Highly Introverted (And Often Nervous) Human — The most important advice that you need to prepare for a presentation is to do what makes you feel most comfortable. Those criteria may change from year to year, from day to day, and even from moment to moment. …

Could sleep help with creative tasks? — Creativity manifests in multiple aspects of our daily lives. It may involve generating ways to manage a heavy workload or drafting a plan for a personal project. Even something as simple as figuring out an efficient way to load groceries into your vehicle involves creative thinking. …

Sleep, rest, and creative problem-solving — Sleeping on our problems may help us develop creative solutions. Have you ever arisen with an answer to a tricky issue? Maybe you woke up with a strategy for a math problem, a method for planning a tight schedule, or a solution to debug your code. Some research studies suggest…

Sleep Deficits → Creativity Deficits — Do you ever feel like you just can’t think? I know the feeling. I sat with this article outline for much longer than I would normally, and a lapse in my sleep health may have been the culprit. …

I started this blog for several reasons. The first is that I care deeply about healthy sleep, and I wanted a medium to communicate the importance of sleep to others. A second reason that I started this blog is that I enjoy the creative process, particularly writing, drafting, crafting, and…

I try not to overcomplicate my writing workflows. Here’s my current creative process. — I think of myself as a pretty fast writer. But, I am slow to publicly post my blogs. To give myself more unstructured time to sit with my writing, I’m posting monthly blogs in batches, normally around a common theme. To help get into the habit of a publishing workflow…

Why I write and sometimes share, and perhaps, you should, too. — Writing is a necessary part of my everyday life. It keeps me balanced, organized, and whole. I write in my free time. I write for my work as a researcher and freelance writer. …

Our perceptions of ourselves and those around us are related to how well we sleep. — The world looks different on little to no sleep. It’s something that we’ve all experienced at some point and have had to navigate. Put simply, sleeplessness does not feel good. How we sleep impacts how we feel about ourselves and those around us. When I don’t sleep well, I don’t…

I apologize for what I said when I was sleep deprived. — When we don’t get enough sleep, we’re less inhibited. Our metaphorical filters malfunction, and we don’t have the same level of compassion and empathy for others as compared to when we have slept well. Poor sleep is related to how we talk with others, how we feel about them, and…