One of the most startling findings of modern psychology is how bad we are at guessing what will make us happy. Not only are we lousy at predicting what will satisfy us, we often misremember our happiness in the past. In perhaps one of the best online talks I’ve ever watched, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman speaks about the difference between the experiencing and remembering selves (if you don’t have time
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May 29, 2025
A List Of 50 Personal Development Goals To Set Yourself In 2019
What do you want to achieve in the next 10 years? No, we’re not talking about ticking off those bucket list entries. We’re talking about the ways that you – the person, the mind, the body, the spirit – would like to develop. What do you want to work on? How do you want to change? Who do you want to become? Big questions, right? But they have to be.
May 25, 2025
The 3 Minutes It Takes To Read This Will Improve Your Conversations Forever – Josh Spector – Pocket
Since my tips to improve your writing in two minutes were so popular, I thought I’d share some similar tips to improve your next conversation. Following are the simplest tips I can give you to ask better questions, which will make your conversations more valuable to you and the people you engage with. Don’t ask yes/no questions. Open-ended questions generate more interesting responses because they unlock more information from people.