As you can get stuck in the void of comfortable complacency somewhere in the middle, sometimes you’re better off if you’re worse off. When our job is…
Focus only on where control and concern meet. We care about a wide range of things in life. But only some of those, we have control over. Likewise, we…
If we only know little, we think we know a lot. If we know a lot, we think we only know little. When we are incompetent at something — either a task or…
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Hidden Costs of Narrow Thinking
How Our Models Mask True Meaning
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Unpopular life advice the positivity culture won't talk about.
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The surprising superpower of adapting your beliefs to new information
The Idea We tend to overestimate both the intensity and durability of future emotional events. When we think about future events, we regularly try to…
How to upgrade your thought process to become a more interesting thinker.
We overestimate the importance of what is and underestimate the importance of what is not. What we don’t do matters as much as what we actually do. But…
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A simple perspective on a complex topic
What looks like an either-or scenario is frequently a lot more nuanced in reality. Our brains are desperately trying to simplify the situations we are…