How to live a good life

Behavioral scientists have long shown that specific goals are the ones that tend to lead to real wins. They have found, for example, that setting a small resolution for a day’s work motivates teams, and can do the same even if someone is working alone.

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late ... look upon it as the quintessence of life ... Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth.”