psychology
Making your own schedule works well for two reasons. The first is sleep. The freedom to control your schedule gives you the best chance of getting a good night’s rest. The research shows that we all need seven to eight hours of shut-eye a night.9 We’ll explore this in further detail later, but here, know that without proper sleep we experience a
... See moreSteven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
.psychology
Like all examples, Bear is imperfect (don’t tell his mother I said that). I talked about his individual behavior, and yet usually behavior change isn’t about a specific person but rather about changing the likelihood of a behavior across a much larger group: team, organization, city, nation—as we said in the behavioral statement, a population. And
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.implementation .psychology
Since we’re picking on tech companies, let’s go with another fan favorite: Facebook. In June 2014 they, along with some Cornell researchers, published a paper10 that revealed a massive intervention in which the company manipulated the contents of users’ newsfeeds to contain either more positive or more negative content, which then caused users to
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.fact .psychology
People turn to crystal balls and tarot cards not for hard answers but for a story that gives them a feeling of control over their lives.
Eric Barker • Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
We must remind ourselves again that history as usually written (peccavimus) is quite different from history as usually lived: the historian records the exceptional because it is interesting—because it is exceptional.
Will Durant • The Lessons of History
Historian also falls prey to stpry telling by recording exceptional
You’ve just been exposed to the Florida effect: a series of age-related stereotypes that, without your awareness, activated a series of nodes and concepts in your brain that in turn prompted
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
.psychology florida effect is an interesting phenomenon .it is called priming wherein you a exposed to concept with words related to concept in some lines. Here the concept of old age, once the readervreads it, he starts behaving as per the exposed concept which is old age in this case
The older adults are often far more motivated to perform well. They try harder. They engage more. They are more serious, more present, more involved. To them, the performance matters a great deal. It says something about their mental capabilities—and they are out to prove that they haven’t lost the touch as they’ve aged. Not so younger adults.
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.psychology .modelthinking
So what do humans have to sacrifice for the sake of showing loyalty to others? In the most basic physical terms, we can offer time, resources (money, food, etc.), energy, health, status, fertility, and knowledge. Each of these is a different type of economic good (tangible/intangible, transferable/non-transferable, rivalrous/non-rivalrous, etc.),
... See moreKevin Simler • Religion, Politics, and Self-Suppression
Why do people fail it? Panic. They forget it’s a game. They think they’ll really die. Joe Simpson didn’t know if he would survive the mountain, but he could get to that next rock in twenty minutes. That game was winnable and it kept him going.