Fast Company

Tricks for calming your worries and turning them into productive action.

“Worry is universal,” says behavioral psychologist Simon Rego, coauthor of the Worry Less Report: A White Paper on the Prevalence of Worrying & Coping Mechanisms for Americans At Home Or On the Road for Liberty Mutual Insurance. “The most telling statistic in our entire review was that about 40% of population worried daily. There’s got to be a usefulness to it; it wouldn’t be so prevalent if there wasn’t a function to worry.”

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CB Insights added personality to its newsletter, and it’s become a real way to attract customers.

“I love you.”

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“We are taking a bottoms-up approach,” says CEO Jonathan Bush.

Edmund Billings spends about three weeks out of the month living out of a suitcase. He racked up 20,000 miles on the road in the past nine months, while driving to some of the most rural and remote parts of the country.

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Many in the city have been coming together to mourn, plan, and take back control of its future.

For the better part of almost 10 years I’ve called London home. Never in my time here in one of the world’s most vibrant cities have I seen anything close to the despair that I’ve witnessed in the last four days in the wake of the Brexit vote.

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The Internet’s designers and a new generation of hackers are unraveling the knots keeping the web from living up to its original promise.

One of us is writing this piece from an airplane over the Atlantic Ocean. The other is working from his home in California. Not long ago this would have sounded like science fiction. Today it’s becoming routine in a world where we do more and more with amazing digital tools on far-flung networks.

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The U.K.’s vote to leave the EU will have a far-reaching effect on travel to and from the country. Here’s how.

As the Brexit fallout continues, it becomes increasingly clear that the wallets of the country’s travelers will feel the pinch. The British pound tanked on Friday and continued its free fall on Monday against major currencies, hitting a 31-year low against the U.S. dollar.

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To rank higher on the Social Progress Index, we need to improve our “environmental quality,” “health and wellness,” and “personal safety” numbers.

Though the United States is one of the richest countries in the world, it’s not necessarily one of the most successful. When you take a broad view of social progress—incorporating measures of health, happiness, the environment, and levels of security—we’re actually down the list of big hitters. Nations such as Sweden and the Netherlands have broader-based prosperity and better access to services like health care and housing.

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The old way of designing brands is in desperate need of a rethink, writes Edenspiekermann’s Paul Woods.

A couple years ago, I was interviewing for a job as digital design director at a (well-known) branding agency. After the usual pleasantries, we landed on the details of what the role would entail. To my dismay, the agency’s interpretation of “digital” was simply putting a new logo onto website mockups at the tail end of an extensive guidelines document. It was clear that digital was very much an afterthought in their branding process and that the position was not for me.

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It isn’t that we’re making bad decisions. More often, we aren’t even aware there’s a decision to make.

Wednesday. Hump Day. The part of the week when we’re over the hill and begin sliding toward the weekend. If hitting midweek feels even a little bit better than slogging through Monday or Tuesday does, well, you’re not alone. According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, the worst day of the week goes to Tuesday—but just barely. It turns out that all the weekdays are rated about equally badly compared with the weekend.

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A full U.K. exit from the EU isn’t inevitable.

On Monday John Kerry, the U.S. secretary of state, met with British and European leaders for private talks to discuss the ramifications of Brexit, last week’s vote for the U.K. to leave the EU. But the very next day during a talk at the Aspen Ideas Festival, something unexpected happened: Kerry suggested that Brexit may never actually happen. He provided two reasons— that Leave campaigners actually didn’t know how to achieve a Brexit, and that further they don’t truly want a divorce from the EU. As the Guardian reports:

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