Category: Self Improvement

“I got a total of 1,307 emails after the month-long experiment. After going through, deleting, and archiving (which took me a total of three hours), I onl...

“Because the process of being fooled takes place inside our minds, it’s up to us to realize when we’re being taken.”

“People only really learn when they’re surprised.”

“One study found adding 20 minutes to your commute makes you as miserable as receiving a 19% pay cut.”

“Sometimes when people don’t take advice, they’re rejecting the idea of being controlled by the advice-giver more than anything.”

“If you read what everyone else is reading, you’ll think like everyone else thinks. If you think like everyone else thinks, you won’t be able to come up w...

“A language is just a system of communication, and once you realize that you start to see ‘languages’ everywhere.”

“Everything you fight has power over you. Everything you accept doesn’t.”

“If you ask for advice, do everything you can to block the voice in your head that starts shooting off all the reasons why that advice might be fine and d...

“Your happiness level actually depends on how often you experience positive events, rather than how magically intense each event actually is.”