Category: Worth Doing

“It’s helped me on everything from the computer deleting the draft of a book I’m working on, to being in a horrible accident, to the minor inconveniences of lif...

“The results are in — we find it more attractive when people fully face the camera. This is especially important for men. Why? Fronting is a nonverbal sign of r...

“A powerful hack for evaluating other people’s character — if you want to know if they themselves display a trait, just find a way to ask how common they think ...

“Pressure is not stress. But the former is converted to the latter when you add one ingredient: rumination, the tendency to keep rethinking past or future event...

“Employees who spent 15 minutes at the end of the day reflecting about lessons learned performed 23% better after 10 days than those who did not reflect.”

“We really underestimate the role that deliberation and reflection play in learning. To a degree we know it, this is why you think of things in the shower or ri...

“Success in life, however you define it, is the result of how many tough conversations you are willing to have.”

“On average most people can only hold seven ‘items’ of information in their working memory at one time.”