psychology

Mindfulness and motivation are essential to successful deduction.

This, I want to remember—and, if possible, solidifying it as soon as we can, whether it be by describing an experience to someone else or to ourselves, if no one else is available (in essence, rehearsing it to help consolidation). Manipulating information, playing around with it and talking it through, making it come alive through stories and

However, researchers have discovered that there’s a limit to how extreme your opening position can be: if it’s too outrageous, you’ll be seen as a bad-faith negotiator, and subsequent concessions will not be reciprocated.

As a result, low cost signals that are easy to fake are often unreliable cues of trustworthiness.

Drive is the psychological fuel that pushes us to obtain resources. We have the greatest chance of obtaining those resources if we have a plan for chasing them (curiosity, passion, purpose), the freedom to chase them (autonomy), and the skills required for that chase (mastery).

The body is an input device to the brain, and putting your body in a stadium alongside other bodies and making it do the Wave is a cheat code for unlocking feelings of solidarity and excitement that are almost impossible to achieve otherwise.

“Hear a piece of information and three days later you’ll remember 10 percent of it. Add a picture and you’ll remember 65 percent.”

This book is meant to ignite that change, and you can read it in any sequence you want. We want you to read the table of contents, reflect on the dreams that excite you and the nightmares that scare you, then go to the precise chapter that helps you the most that day.

“The Barnum effect refers to the tendency for people to accept as uncannily descriptive of themselves the same generally worded assessment as long as they believe it was written specifically for them on the basis of some ‘diagnostic’ instrument such as a horoscope or personality inventory.”