“Providing a sense of progression is a form of feedback and is a key component of making unpleasant tasks more manageable.”
How to Get People to Do Things They Don’t Want to Do
Why Our Preoccupation with Happiness Has Made Us Less Happy
“Happiness studies seem to be a way of convincing people they’re happy — or could be happy — even as they’re being dealt increasingly bad hands in terms of things like income inequality, educational affordability, and access to health care.”
Why Sitting Down Destroys You
“Fitness talks muscles before spine. Gymnasts focus on how they are moving their body — and they also just happen to have awesome posture and a really strong core.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.” — John Perry Barlow
What to Do When You Have Too Much to Do
“Pick one thing, and give it your focus. Yes, there are a lot of other things you can focus on. Yes, they’re stressing you out and making it hard to focus. But think about it this way: if you allow it all to be in your head all the time, that will always be your mode of being.”
This Should Be Posted on the Wall of Every Business
“Never try to be cool. Only try to be good.”
How to Write in a Way That Makes People Feel Smart
“Good communicators make themselves look smart. Great communicators make their audiences feel smart.”
How to Fact Check an Article in 30 Seconds
“Think of it as information hygiene, the metaphorical handwashing you engage in to prevent the spread of misinformation.”
You’ll Make the Same Mistakes Until You Acknowledge Them
“Admitting mistakes, first to ourselves, and then to others, allows us to channel our energies into self-improvement rather than waste them on covering up our human frailties.”
10 Daily Mindsets and Habits to Help You Write a Book
“Nearly all writing is influenced by other people’s work. Finding your unmistakable voice is often the results of borrowing ingredients from other people and coming up with your recipes.”