Category: Make Better Decisions

Be Happier

How To Find Happiness In Today’s Hectic World

Trying to find happiness in a world so busy and complicated can seem impossible. What's weird is that in so many ways our lives are objectively better than our grandparents'…


10 minutes
Interviews With Experts

How To Be Like Sherlock Holmes: 4 Insights From Research

Wouldn't it be great to be able to just look at someone and tell what they're really like? Sherlock Holmes does this all the time and it's incredibly cool. Check…


7 minutes
Be More Creative

How To Be Successful: 6 New Shortcuts Backed By Research

We all want success. And we'd like it fast. But we can only work so long and so hard. The more-more-more ethos only goes so far. What to do? I decided…


9 minutes
Have Great Relationships

7 Ways You Can Easily Increase Your Willpower

In general, people have an overly positive vision of themselves and their abilities. But what's the one thing surveys show most everyone will admit they have a problem with? Self-control. And who is…


6 minutes
Live The Good Life

Decision Making: The #1 Secret Of Astronauts, Samurai, Navy SEALs, and Psychopaths

We all make a lot of bad decisions. With careers: More than half of teachers quit their jobs within four years. In fact, one study in Philadelphia schools found that…


8 minutes
Make Better Decisions

3 Ways Elephants And Neuroscience Can Help You Make Better Decisions

Everything You Know About Neuroscience is Wrong Here's a fancy brain picture for you: Research says that's likely to make you think I know what I'm talking about -- even…


5 minutes
Be More Productive

Lessons From The Samurai: The Secret To Always Being At Your Best

Reading a few books by samurai there was one thing I saw repeated again and again and again that surprised me. It has nothing to do with swords, fighting or strategy. Actually,…


5 minutes
Become an Expert

8 Steps To Getting The Perfect Mentor For You

Mentors, mentors, mentors. Everyone's always talking about them but no one really seems to know how to get a good one. Thanks to the internet we have more information than…


9 minutes

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