The Fast Track is a column focused on leadership and healthy living by Strauss Zelnick, the co-founder of ZMC, a leading media-focused investment firm, and the chairman and CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software, one of the world’s largest video game companies. Zelnick is also an avid participant in #TheProgram, a New York-based fitness group. If …

Life is hectic. Work deadlines, home maintenance, family drama, financial problems and health issues can take their toll on the body, physically and mentally. In the past, the amount of stress I felt on a daily basis was paralyzing. Until I had an epiphany. I can’t always control the stressful situations around me, but I …

The Dining Table “I’m not draconian about these things. Cellphones can be social tools, like when you look at a video together. Cellphones are very useful when you’re at dinner and you want to go see a movie and one of you pulls out your phone and looks up the time. The danger is when …

“You look tired!” You may be trying to be sympathetic, but pointing out that someone looks tired is just another way of saying “Wow, you look like crap!” Nobody wants to hear it, and saying it just makes you sound insensitive (and even flat-out rude). The same goes for “Did you lose weight?” Even if …

Aaron Davidson / Stringer / Getty Images This article originally appeared on Businessinsider There’s a bad habit that’s all too familiar to the social media generation: comparing our lives to the ones we see on our Instagram and Facebook feeds. It’s easy to do when you’re scrolling through photos and status updates about this person’s city-hopping tour …