How to Be More Hopeful
“Optimism changes subjective reality. The way we expect the world to be changes the way we see it. But it also changes objective reality. It acts as a self-fulf...
Category: Self Improvement
43 Ways to Defeat Distractions
“A lot of things happen before the work itself — from traffic, to interacting with other people, something might worry you, so it makes a lot of sense to take a...
19 Great Truths from a 90-Year-Old Grandmother
“There are thousands of people who live their entire lives on the default settings, never realizing they can customize everything.”
How Malcolm Gladwell Comes up with Ideas
“A book comes out and there’s a whole world out there that pounces on it and tells you why it’s bad. A podcast — there is no critical infrastructure. None. Zero...
How to Nurture Creativity in Your Kids
“Nurturing creativity is mostly about getting out of the way. I think it’s really hard to raise a creative child. It’s really easy to thwart a child’s creativit...
How to Give Away Things as You Get Older
“It wasn’t the things I’d saved that were important, it was the stories that went with them that gave them meaning. Could using the objects to tell the stories ...
Four Things Procrastinators Need to Learn
“To be a chronic procrastinator is to be fooled repeatedly by the same illusions about how your mind works and how things actually get done.”
Two Ways to Capture and Keep Attention
“If the unusual or novel steal our attention, unusual plus potential danger keeps our attention.”
How to Overcome Your Limiting Creative Beliefs
“What if your definition of creativity was limiting your creativity?”
The Best Time to Book Flights
“One interesting finding is that the lowest fare for any one trip changed an average of 62 times during the period that that trip was offered for sale. That’s r...