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Those who describe themselves as great multitaskers are probably the worst at it.

Weinschenk Susan • 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)

Research by Dacher Keltner at the University of California, Berkeley, and others has shown that those with lower status are keener perspective-takers.

Daniel H Pink • To Sell Is Human

favorite answer is called deliberate play.

Adam Grant • Hidden Potential

giving, matchers grant that member a license to deviate from a group’s norms or expectations. As Berkeley sociologist Robb Willer summarizes, “Groups reward individual sacrifice.”

Adam M. Grant Ph.D. • Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

I believe each of us can make the world a little friendlier, a little more trusting, a little better, and that it can start with something as simple as 'hello'.

Gillian Sandstrom • Why you should talk to strangers | BPS

When they questioned the subjects afterward, the unsuspecting blinkers reported significantly higher feelings of respect and fondness for their colleagues who, unbeknownst to them, had simply been counting their blinks.

Leil Lowndes • How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

Thinking Fast and Slow

Susan David • Emotional Agility

1 In other words, our brains don’t like unfairness and this dislike makes us take action to express our displeasure.

Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense

So changing behavior and enhancing happiness is as much about withdrawing attention from the negative as it is about attending to the positive.