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Research suggests that to have a satisfying life, you need to regularly feel three things: achievement (recognition or a sense of accomplishment), meaningfulness (a connection to something bigger than yourself), and joy (happiness or positive emotion) in the moment. How well are you doing on each of those fronts?
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their lives could be significantly improved by making it as easy as possible to do the right thing—based on everything else we know—using the power of default options and small nudges:
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Having more control over your time and options is becoming one of the most valuable currencies in the world.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Gen Z wants to know they are making a difference, including at work.
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
With the future weighted nearly as heavily as the present, the value of making a chance discovery, relative to taking a sure thing, goes up even more.
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Put simply, we can account for money, but there’s no accounting for time. If there were an accounting for time—if we could say what our time is worth—it would be easier to make time-affluent decisions. An accounting for time would make it easier to believe that time-focused decisions carry greater value than the money we might miss out on.
Ashley Whillans • Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life
One study tracked more than six thousand young adults in the US at the beginning of their careers over the course of two decades, and found that those who believed that life’s outcomes are due to their own efforts as opposed to external factors became more successful in their careers and went on to attain higher earnings.25
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
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