Fewer Things Better
Life is noisy, but your brain doesn't have to be. This quick weekly conversation offers smart, simple ways to retrain your brain to hack your productivity and communicate better. Brain-science-meets-word-nerd host Kristin Graham offers shortcuts on how to navigate our cluttered digital world so you can spend more time enjoying life offline. She's done the research and tried-the-things, so you get the headlines and hacks without all the homework.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 175
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Ep. 55 - Productivity: The Gift of Good Enough
If you're always trying to track your to-do's or find a better way to remember all-the-things, this episode is for you. We'll explore concepts from science, psychology, and…
Ep. 54 - The Brain Boost of Little Luxuries
This episode explores ideas on where to add or upgrade elements of your regular routine with small dashes of delight. Neuroscience shows that small, positive changes can ha…
Ep. 53 - Productivity & Habit Swapping: One More, One Less
In our productivity quest, sometimes an effective way to take action is to swap opposite actions. This episode introduces the concept of One More & One Less as an introduc…
Ep. 52 - What Matters: What We Own vs. What We Have
This episode is about how we often take our wants and convince ourselves that they are needs. We're stressed if we don't have something and then we're stressed when we hav…
Ep. 51 - The Body Language & Subtle Signals Behind Our Words
What we say doesn’t always match what we mean. We aren’t always aware of the subliminal messages that sit behind our words. This only gets further complicated in our digita…
Ep. 50 - Train Your Brain to Respond v. React
We all have days where things don't go as planned. Mishaps, delays, distractions are all part of the bumps on the ride. Helping to make the bumps smoother is the difference…
Ep. 49 - Other People’s Problems: How Good Deeds Become Distractions
Helping others is a noble effort. A steady supply of good deeds, however, can lead to a pattern of disruption. This episode explores when other people (and other people’s p…
Ep. 48 - Words & Actions: Most Important Next Steps (MINS)
Today’s topic offers a buy-one-get-one concept as it relates to a technique that can help improve our communications and also our productivity. When we’re offering words o…
Ep. 47 - Productivity: The Key Three Technique
Our brains are wired to look for information, and this built-in distraction feature is part of what extends our daily to-do list. This episode outlines a simple-yet-effecti…
Ep. 46 - Lessons an Ordinary Person Learned from an Extraordinary Life
I recently had a chance to return to the Chicago college where I went as a very ordinary 18-year-old and spoke about the path that led to an extraordinary life. This episod…
Ep. 45 - The 'Happy When' Fallacy: Why Delayed Gratification Doesn't Work
Deferring your enjoyment of happiness is one sure way to dilute the very essence of it. Happiness gets to be a yes-and; it can be present today and be amplified with future…
Ep. 44 - The Brain Blahs: Pushing Past Plateaus
We humans love a good reward. What isn’t sexy is the doing – the daily grind. The monotony of routine without right-now results. Growth occurs in spurts - and it's the grin…
Ep. 43 - Your First 30 Minutes: How to Boost Your Brain for the Day
There is a lot of research from the biological, neurological, and psychological camps about different elements that can boost or drain your day. This episode focuses on how…
Ep. 42 - The Messy Middle: Why Being Good Enough Is Great
This episode is celebrating progress over perfection. It explores our conditioning of why we are challenged to accept good and burn harder to try to achieve great. We can …
Ep. 41 - Sunk Cost: The Extra Cost of Your Time, Money & Energy
Any previous time, money, or effort that has already been expended is known in financial principles as a Sunk Cost. It is an investment that has already occurred and cannot…
Ep. 40 - How to Master a Skill in 18 Minutes
This episode explores the Rule of 100, which says you can dramatically improve a skill through 100 hours of learning or practicing. That amount of time gets you past the pl…
Ep. 39 - Habit Kickstart: The Power of 5 Good Minutes
A goal without a plan is just a wish. A habit without momentum is just a goal. This episode leans into the wisdom of the power of 5 good minutes, as mentioned in a conversa…
Ep. 38 - Making Decisions: Why 'Yes' & 'No' Are Hard to Say
We make thousands of decisions every day. Some are conscious, clear choices and others are subconscious routines. There are also the Yes and No answers that are obvious and…
Ep. 37 - The Highlights Episode: Clips on Attention, Time, Decisions, Words, Connection & Sleep
This roundup episode offers quick clips from six previous podcast conversations. Listen to a collection of brain snacks that includes how the attention economy affects our …
Ep. 36 - 10 Gifts That Cost Nothing & Mean a Lot
We don't have to buy, buy, buy in order to give. This episode highlights 10 ideas on how to give from the heart (and the brain) versus from the wallet. See if any kickstart…