psychology

Completing your clear goals will reward you with dopamine. Even so, endless persistence can be tough. That’s where grit comes in –⁠ the energy it takes to push through years of hard work. Some people are more naturally gritty than others. But don’t worry if that’s not you. It’s a skill you can improve.

One way to cultivate grit is to work around

A plausible interpretation is that higher income is associated with a reduced ability to enjoy the small pleasures of life. There is suggestive evidence in favor of this idea: priming students with the idea of wealth reduces the pleasure their face expresses as they eat a bar of chocolate!

Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality.

The mind, according to this view, is like a little person inside our heads, sitting in the control tower, receiving data from the outside and issuing commands to the body. Questions about dualism aside, what's interesting here is that the mind is in control of the body.

This way of looking at things is useful, but incomplete, because influence runs

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

‘I am convinced now that nothing good is accomplished and a lot of damage can be done if you tell a person straight out that he or she is wrong. You only succeed in stripping that person of self-dignity and making yourself an unwelcome part of any discussion,’

Everyone bifurcates the world into content and distribution,” Whaley told me. He has brown hair, is of average height, and was wearing a nondescript gray t-shirt and jeans when we talked. “From the beginning, we viewed those as the same thing. Each object gets better with more participation, and so does MSCHF. Scale is not the goal. Scale is a tool

‘I don’t blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.’

People who are similar to us can greatly influence our choices.