Facts vs Feelings
People rarely reason their way to a feeling. They arrive at the feeling and then produce reasons that sound like…
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The 6 steps to start a new habit and keep it
Most new habits die before they ever become automatic. These 6 steps show how to make the starting part automatic,…
You money or your life?
March 28, 1948. Sunday night on NBC radio. Jack Benny is walking home from a party with Ronald Colman’s Oscar…
Mind the present
On the morning of 16 November 1973, Buddhist monks carried a body down to Muir Beach and burned it on…
Grief is love with no place to go
In the opening of the book The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), Didion writes: Life changes fast.Life changes in the…
How to find meaning in a meaningless world
The beautiful ones The 8 mice arrived on July 9, 1968 and got dropped into a steel enclosure at the…
Emotions vs Feelings: What, Why and How it Matters
Article summary Your brain constructs emotions the way an improvising chef builds a dish. Not by following a recipe written…
How to use a commitment device to reach your goals
If Isabel Allende’s office needs painting, it gets done by January 7. After that, the door stays shut. She has…
What is motivation and how to get it?
A groom let himself into the writing room with a cup of coffee. He had been paid £5 a year…
How to Memento Mori
When a Roman general won a major battle, the senate awarded him a triumphus. A triumphus was a massive public…