INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Don't bring work home with you. Stay after work if you have to, but don't leave work with tasks to complete at home. Especially when it comes to the weekends, leave your work at the office and focus on enjoying your time off. If you're worried about forgetting something or leaving a task unfinished, write a to-do list for the next work day. That way, you'll be prepared to complete your tasks the next time you go to work. Once you finish the workday, develop a ritual to help you detach and enter into your personal life. For example, shut down your computer, wash your hands, then leave the building. Even closing and locking your office door can become significant and symbolic of leaving your work and entering your personal life. Doing an after-work ritual can help you mentally detach and put your focus elsewhere. When doing your after-work ritual, mentally detach from your work. Say to yourself, "I have completed my workday and can enter my personal life." Especially if you work with people or are in a helping profession, it can be difficult to not bring your work emotions home with you. Whether you've had a bad day, experienced a negative interaction, or felt overworked, it's easy to carry these emotions home with you. While you may need to vent occasionally about a difficult day at work or a difficult encounter, don't make this a regular routine. Deal with your emotions while at work, not after work. For example, talk to a co-worker about your difficult day. You might to start a work journal to help you express your emotions and not carry them over. If you do vent to someone at home, try to limit the conversation to about 15 minutes, or 30 if something is really upsetting you and you need to talk through it. Ask the person you are conversing with to gently change the subject if you keep venting for too long. If you have a work computer or cell phone, turn it off or silent when you go home. Keeping a work phone with you is one of the easiest ways to get sucked back into your work. If possible, don't bring it home with you at all. If you're tempted to check your work email, save it for when you're in the office. Most things are not urgent and don't require your immediate attention.

SUMMARY: Keep work tasks at work. Do an after-work ritual. Handle your work emotions at work. Keep work electronics turned off.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: This trick involves large numbers, so a calculator that has plenty of space will come in handy. Tell him that you'll be reading his mind, so he should keep everything on the paper and calculator hidden from you. This trick also requires some quick thinking on your part. It's nothing harder than addition, but you'll need to be fast and error-free. These can be any whole numbers, but they must be consecutive. (There can be no whole numbers between them.) For example, your volunteer could pick 19, 20, and 21. If the calculator only has room to display eight digits, the numbers must all be between 1 and 21. If it only has room to display six digits, make it 1 to 9. After he finds the answer on the calculator, have him write it down on the piece of paper. In our example, 19 x 20 x 21 = 7980. Next, the person you're "mind reading" secretly picks three more consecutive numbers. He multiplies them together and writes them down next to his first answer. Let's say he picks 12, 13, 14. He multiplies 12 x 13 x 14 = 2184. Now the volunteer multiplies his two answers together and writes down the result. 7980 x 2184 = 17428320. Explain that you only have enough power to read one of the digits from his mind. Ask him to pick one secret digit in the number, then write down the other digits after shuffling them in any order. For example, if he picks 4 as the secret digit, he could shuffle the rest of the digits as 2287013. Remind him that he must keep one digit secret. Have him read the other digits slowly and clearly while you add them in your head. For example, he would read "2... 2... 8... 7... 0... 1... 3." You add these together as he goes, getting a total of 23. All of the digits in his answer, including the secret one, will add up to a multiple of 9. Once you know this, there are two ways to find the secret digit. Here they are, using our example: The non-secret digits add up to 23, and you know the next multiple of 9 is 27. Think 27 - 23 = 4, so the last digit must be 4. If you're not sure what the next multiple of 9 is, add the digits in your sum and repeat. For example, 23 2 + 3 = 5. Now the next multiple of 9 is 9, and 9 - 5 = 4. If you add the digits he spoke out loud and you already have a multiple of 9, there are two possibilities. Either the secret digit is 0, or the secret digit is 9. Make a guess at one of them. If you get it wrong, make a joke ("I knew I should have studied harder in telepathy school"), then guess again with the second possibility. Any three consecutive numbers includes a multiple of 3, so the product of the trio will also be a multiple of 3. Since you repeat this and multiply the two answers together, you are finding the product of two multiples of three. This product is always a multiple of 9 (since 3 x 3 = 9). All multiples of 9 have the property described above, where all of their digits sum to another multiple of 9.

SUMMARY: Hand a calculator, pencil, and paper to a volunteer. Instruct a volunteer to write down three positive, consecutive numbers. Ask him to multiply the three numbers together. Tell the volunteer to repeat this for three other consecutive numbers. Have him multiply the two products together. Tell the volunteer to shuffle all but one digit. Add the shuffled digits as he reads them aloud. Find the secret digit. Know what to do if the shuffled digits add up to 9. Understand why this works.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: It's the blue chat bubble icon with a white lightning bolt inside. You'll usually find it on the home screen or in the app drawer. Facebook Messenger includes a feature that lets its users see when their messages have been read. This opens the conversation. The message will appear in the conversation. If you see a check mark in a white circle, it means you've sent the message and it's on its way. It has not yet been delivered to the other person's Messenger. If there's a check mark in a blue circle, the message has been delivered to Messenger, but your friend hasn't opened or read it. If you see your friend's profile picture in place of the check marks, this means they have read the message.

SUMMARY:
Open Facebook Messenger on your Android. Tap the person you want to message. Type a message and send it. Look at the small icon at the bottom-right corner of the message you sent.