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This Is How To Get What You Want In Life: 6 Secrets To High-Agency
We’d all like to think we’re deliberately steering our lives. Yet a heck of a lot of adulthood consists of continuing whatever we were already doing because stopping would require change. You took a...
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This Is How To Find Meaning In Life: 5 Secrets From Research
Now and then, we all have those nights. It’s a little too late and your brain starts asking way too many questions, auditing your life at the time when it’s least generous. Until finally it lands on...
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This Is How To Get What You Really Want: 6 Secrets From Research
There’s something you want. And you think to yourself, “Once I get it, everything’s gonna change!” And you get it. Boom. You feel fantastic. Your brain does a little victory lap around the inside of...
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This Is How To Live A Good Life: 5 Secrets From Ancient Wisdom
How do we live a good life? Gahhhhhhhhh. Why don’t we ever deal with easy questions on this blog, huh? Who decides this stuff? (Don’t answer that.) Look, alright, nobody, and I mean NOBODY, knows what...
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The Uncomfortable Reason You Keep Self-Sabotaging: 6 Secrets From...
Why do we so frequently self-sabotage? The usual answers can’t be accurate. We’re far too good at it for that. Too consistent. Some part of us must be quietly invested in staying stuck. But nobody...
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How To Get Unstuck: 6 Secrets From Philosophy
Life is hard. At birth you were issued a body that breaks down, a mind that talks back, a limited number of Tuesdays, and an unkillable suspicion that everybody else got a more thorough orientation...
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The Counterintuitive Way To Get Better At Anything
A while back, I posted about David Epstein’s new book, which breaks down how constraints can help us live better lives. Ironically, making things a little harder can lead to increased productivity,...
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The Most Surprising Path To Happiness: 5 Secrets From Philosophy
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in 1788 and died in 1860 and spent the intervening seventy-two years being, by a considerable margin, the most comprehensively, systematically, professionally pessimistic...
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Six Scientific Secrets To A Long, Healthy Life
Aging is like being enrolled in a subscription service you never signed up for and every month they remove a feature, add a new bug, and raise the price. It begins with Spontaneous Joint...
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4 Secrets to Smarter Thinking
In 2005, Philip Tetlock did a study, “Expert Political Judgment”, where he basically asked, “Hey, what if we tested whether all these Very Important Experts were any good at predicting the future?”...
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This Is The Simplest Way To Make Your Life Awesome
We love freedom. And so it is with a heavy heart and a full awareness that I am committing a kind of cultural treason that I report the following: Freedom is ruining everything. Not political freedom....
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This Is How To Increase Confidence: 5 Secrets From Research
Confidence, for most of us, is not a steady flame. It’s a tea light in a drafty hallway. You’re feeling good. But then something happens you weren’t prepared for. Or your inner critic begins...
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New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Secrets That Will Make You Emotionally Intelligent
The problem with emotions is not that we have them, but that they’re allowed to operate unsupervised. You’d think we’d have figured out by now how to not be held hostage by a rogue’s gallery of...
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This Is How To Have A Long Awesome Life: 11 Secrets From Research
The sheer volume of pseudoscientific drivel available on the subject of “getting in shape” is so dense, it could collapse in on itself and form a black hole of misinformation. We are living in a...
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This Is How To Save Money On Travel: 6 Expert Tips
Travel is wonderful. It promises enlightenment, new experiences, and the smug satisfaction of saying, “Well, when I was in Portugal…” But traveling these days feels a bit like being punched in the...
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This Is How To Increase Self-Esteem: 4 Secrets From Research
There are days when you feel like you can do anything. And then there are other days… Days where your self-esteem is playing hide and seek, and let’s just say it’s really good at hiding. You’re...
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This Is How To Feel Better And Achieve Your Goals: 4 Secrets From Research
We all reach a point where we feel hopeless. Your inner monologue sounds like a rejected Alanis Morissette lyric and any level of optimism you possessed is now playing varsity level hide and seek....
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Ancient Wisdom Reveals 6 Secrets To A Long Awesome Life
The thing about aging is that it’s sneaky. It doesn’t just show up one day, wearing a T-shirt that says, “I’m here to ruin your life.” No, it’s more subtle, like a ninja with joint pain. But that...
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New Neuroscience Reveals 3 Secrets That Will Make You Happier
Why can’t we just be happy all the time? From a neuroscience perspective, the best answer is probably “because of habituation.” It’s the insidious process by which the extraordinary becomes the...
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How to Be Healthier Without Really Trying
You’ll take roughly 670 million breaths in your lifetime. But we don’t think about breathing much. It’s only when something goes wrong — like when you’re choking on a chicken nugget — that you...
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