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

Even more surprising, those who donate their time to help others feel less busy and like they have more free time.

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

cause your mind to wander. Focus.

When you relate to someone you look up to, you get motivated. And when that person makes you feel you can do that too, bang—that produces real results.

Want to know who will do best in school or who will actually have more knowledge? Don’t bet on IQ. Being an introvert is more predictive of good grades than intelligence. In her book Quiet, Susan Cain reports: At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability. One study tested 141 college students’ kn

One of the main reasons humans have been so successful, as Israeli researcher Yuval Noah Harari points out, is due to what is called “fictive kinship.” Most species hang out only with family. Everybody else is a potential enemy. Good ol’ Homo sapiens have been so successful because we’ve extended the definition of family by using mutually agreed up

sometimes the strategy that makes you lose small on this round makes you win big on the next. Here’s the crazy thing: TFT never got a higher score than its counterpart did in any single game. It never won. But the gains it made in the aggregate were better than those achieved by “winners” who edged out meager profits across many sessions.

Eighty percent of our evaluations of other people come down to two characteristics: warmth and competence.

How many people do you need to date to find the perfect match? Matt Parker explains in his book Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension. First, take a guess at the number of different people you might go out with. A rough guess will do. Obviously you have to sleep, you probably won’t go on a date every night, and you’d like to be married befo

Stories and limits—that’s what grit and quit come down to. Focus