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Mental Gymnastics to Exercise the PFC
Marc Milstein • The Age-Proof Brain
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Adam Alter • Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
fs.blog • Behavioral Economics Reading List
Evolution seems to have struck a compromise, or perhaps just aggregated new systems on top of old. Homo sapiens are still tempted by food, but our oversized prefrontal cortices give us a limited ability to resist temptation. Not unlimited ability—our ancestors with too much willpower probably starved themselves to sacrifice to the gods, or failed t
... See moreEliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
Simple: logic fails. If you were to summarize the last 100 years of behavioral psychology in two words, that would be the takeaway.
Timothy Ferriss • The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
Our cognitive apparatus is designed, at least in part, to sustain us in the long term rather than balm us in the near term.
Daniel H. Pink • The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
we behave—often without realizing it—in a way that is keenly informed by the sense that our actions will be interpreted by others.