Sublime

Value is subjective, which means uncertainty governs all economic phenomena.

Psychologist Arie Kruglanski has spent his career studying a phenomenon known as the Need for Closure: a desire of the mind to come to some definitive knowledge of an issue. Beyond exploring how individuals differ in that need, Kruglanski has demonstrated that we can manipulate it in order to be more attentive and engaged—and to make sure we comple

Michael Norton, a professor of management at Harvard Business School and a coauthor of the book Happy Money,

No One Is an Island

The key is to train our habits proactively, such that our reactive, automatic response to stimuli matches the response we’d choose if we could take the time to make the choice.

Social acceptance is something we all crave, and Fitocracy leverages the universal need for connection as an on-ramp to fitness, making new tools and features available to users as they develop new habits.

To perfect the art of becoming such a reliable person, Franklin wrote out a “Plan for Future Conduct” during his eleven-week voyage back to Philadelphia. It would be the first of many personal credos that laid out pragmatic rules for success and made him the patron saint of self-improvement guides.