The Psychological Trap That’s Making Your Life Fester
Understanding the 'not so bad paradox,' a.k.a. the 'region beta paradox,' can help you proactively avoid its insidious effects.
The Enjoyment Switch: Why Not Choose to Enjoy?
To enjoy, or not to enjoy, that is the question. Here are some thoughts on choosing the more enjoyable answer.
The Next Best Thing You Can Do Is Broaden Your View of Time
Taking a broad view of your time is the second best thing you can do for your life. Here's why, how, and the only thing better.
Are You Getting Your 10,000 Mental Steps a Day?
What if you made as much time in your day for mental wandering as you do for getting your 10,000 steps in?
The Simple Way to Get More of What You Really Want
What happens when you get in the habit of asking yourself "What for?" and "What instead?" before acting.
The Optimal Level of Difficulty for Life is Radically Moderate
There is an optimally efficient slope for climbing a mountain, so is there also an optimal level of difficulty for the "climb" of life?
Ranking The Year’s 15 “Best” Self-Help Trends
The ultimate power rankings of the best, hottest, most life-changing trends to hit the self-help world this past year.
Delayed Gratification Is Overrated: The Untold Marshmallow Story
The surprising story from the famous Stanford marshmallow experiments that changed my thinking about delayed gratification.
How to Cultivate Your Values with the Content You Consume
Why I converted from doubtful skeptic about the value of the information I consume into a disciple of my new "info-ligion," Flip-Flopism.
How to Get the Advice You Need But Don’t Want to Hear
I came up with a workaround to filter out bad advice and get the good advice I need the most but don't want to hear.
Book Summaries: The Best Ideas from My Favorite Non-Fiction
These book summaries share my top takeaways from the best non-fiction I've read, taken notes on, and written about.
The Most Motivating Things I Learned from Drive by Dan Pink
The most interesting things I learned from Drive by Dan Pink and how I intend to use them to better motivate myself and others.