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Why it’s so hard to change our beliefs
Table of Contents Where Our Hunches Actually Come From The Mere Exposure Effect Fluency Change is Harder Than We Realize Confirmation Bias and Commitment “Laziness is built deep into our brains.”–...
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Why today’s self-help advice is making us miserable
Table of Contents The Bible or Nothing Character Building: Ben Franklin and Beyond How to Sell Yourself The Industrial Revolution: The Death of Modesty Tim Ferriss and the Age of Optimization The...
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The Relativity Theory of Motivation
This interview with Devon Price is the best that I’ve read in a while. Price, the author of Laziness Does Not Exist, started rethinking their entire view of productivity after reflecting on their pet...
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Why “There” is No Better Than “Here”: How Your Attention Creates Your Happiness
Table of Contents Everything in life is a good news/bad news story How you pay attention to anything is how you view everything Optimism is a superpower Attitudes are contagious What if this all...
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Draw the rest of the fucking owl: On the unintended consequences of...
Table of Contents We would all read Brad Pitt’s dating book “Don’t complicate things” say rich white men whose assistants are probably writing the books Why the simplicity of privilege makes us feel...
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Everyone With a Superpower Has a Part-Time Job
Years ago when I started getting serious about my health, a group of top-level CrossFit athletes decided to join my gym. One night, my Crossfit coach decided to take a regular class, right next to me....
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40 Years of Stanford Research Found That Being Able to Delay Gratification...
Table of Contents Selection Bias The Marshmallow Test The Other Marshmallow Test When an Entire Generation Doesn’t Get the Marshmallow Selection Bias Have you ever felt cold in an office? Or noticed...
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The Slow Suffocation of Unsolicited Advice
Table of Contents The Power of a Lack of Mental Chatter This is Your Brain on Status The Other Marshmallow Study The Slow Suffocation of Unsolicited Advice Why Unsolicited Advice is Never Helpful...
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The Relativity Theory of Everything
We see the world this way – and so does everyone else. Neither of these viewpoints are 100% objective or “right” In 2020, when I lived two blocks from a hospital in Queens, COVID-related mayhem started...
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Slow Productivity is Already Here
To prevent burnout, we need to care less and have a life Table of Contents Cal Newport, Super Genius There Will Always Be Assholes Who Work Over the Weekend When only one basket holds all of your...
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Why “Just Do It” Doesn’t Work When You’re Depressed
Table of Contents You Can’t Self-Discipline Your Way Out of Depression Depression for Non-depressed Weirdos The Mental Health Pandemic is Inevitable Wear and Tear Take a Toll Climbing Out of the Black...
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The Intelligence of Simplicity
Table of Contents Steve Jobs: Not a Simpleton The Intelligence of Simplicity Why We Like Other People: The Art of Reinforcement Presenting complex, detailed numbers prevents your audience from seeing...
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Big-ism: An Epidemic of Bad Communication
While speaking to Congress in February 1981, Ronald Reagan used this example to explain the national debt, $14.3 trillion: “If you had a stack of thousand-dollar bills in your hand only 4 inches high,...
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The Life-Changing Magic of Letting Yourself Take Breaks
Table of Contents Why We’re Obsessed With Consistency The Flipside of Consistency: You Can’t Simultaneously Be in the Middle of Something and Have Perspective of It The Psychologically Rich Life To...
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There is no data to explain the vast majority of life
Last week, my friend Jay Van Bavel posted this on LinkedIn: I constantly see people post about the power of tiny gains (image on the left) showing that if simply improve 1% a day you’ll be 38X better...
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16 minutes IntroThe Time TaxWriting While FemaleHaving a female name means getting lower ratingsHaving a female name is demoralizingBeing attacked, doing housework: death by a 1,000 cutsStudies about...
View ArticleThe Greatest Life Hack: Self-Acceptance in an Age of Relentless Hustle
7 minutes Table of Contents The Battle of Self-Worth The Revolutionary Act of Self-Acceptance Embracing the Rebellion of Self-Acceptance Every era has its own anxieties, problems, and constraints—and...
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What Happens When We See Others as Obstacles
Table of Contents The Problem with Productivity Back to the Pilgrims Destination Addiction Resources The Problem with Productivity: Birth Place of the Egosystem In 2008, social psychologist Jennifer...
View ArticleBeing Yourself is Extraordinary Enough
Table of Contents Our obsession with achievement The Revolutionary Act of Self-Acceptance Embracing the Rebellion of Self-Acceptance I just got the memo that Adam Grant’s next book is available for...
View ArticleThe Science of Why Representation Matters
TABLE OF CONTENTS Fluency Easy = Good Economists ruined everything Fluency in the Real World Over the course of evolution, our brain has developed countless adaptations to successfully adapt to...
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Maybe Behavioral Economists are the Truly Irrational Ones
7 minutes The latest brouhaha in the never-ending saga of Analyzing Human Behavior is Not Compatible with the Scientific Method is that of Dan Ariely. The behavioral economist and bestselling author of...
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Soft Skills for the Apocalypse
Book #3 is in the works!The post Soft Skills for the Apocalypse first appeared on Karla Starr.
View ArticleStop Search and Commit
The following was in an early draft of my first book, Can You Learn to Be Lucky? Date after date after date—at some point, getting free dinner got tiresome. Subconsciously, I had decided to stop my...
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