Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

Research shows that the best teams are a mix of old friends and new blood, and that’s also an advantage in networking.

Confidence is a result of success, not a cause.

A study of 403 people in the Journal of Happiness Studies showed that managing your free time is associated with higher quality of life. What was fascinating was that increasing people’s free time had no effect on their happiness, but scheduling that time in advance made all the difference.

You can do this too: know thyself and pick the right pond. Identify your strengths and pick the right place to apply them.

And I can’t help but mention that an informal study showed that ethics books are 25 percent more likely to be stolen than the average library book.

Everything we do in life is a trade-off. Choosing to do one thing means not doing something else.

Studies show that your boss has a much larger effect on your happiness and success than the company at large.

When you remove people’s emotional connection to their labor and treat them merely as machines that produce effort, it’s soul killing.

With that structure, things that sound utterly boring on the surface can become incredibly fun and rewarding—even addictive.

Most people are dandelions; they’ll come out okay under almost any circumstances. Others are orchids; they’re not just more sensitive to negative outcomes but more sensitive to everything.