Shane Copeland on Substack

What an extraordinary suggestion for life: rein in your aims. It plays against every goal-setting, positive-thinking, believe-in-yourself-and-you-can-achieve-anything mantra of modern life. We have to keep reminding ourselves that it isn’t a recipe for motionless complacency. Yet with such modest expectations, we can still change the world. We do n

Shawn Achor recommends the “twenty second rule.” Make the things you should do twenty seconds easier to start and make the things you shouldn’t be doing twenty seconds harder. Sounds tiny but it makes a big difference.