Sublime

He discovered, at this young age, the most important fact about magic. He explained years later: “It’s really about the limits of attention.” The job of a magician is—at heart—to manipulate your focus. That coin didn’t really vanish—but your attention was somewhere else when the magician moved it, so when your focus comes back to the original spot,

Between 1990 and 1995, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his students exhaustively studied ninety-one exceptional innovators. “If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others,” Csikszentmihalyi noted in Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, “it would be complexity. By this I mean that they sh

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First, the obviously bad: in most situations, under most circumstances, we are active observers, and as such, more likely than not to make the error of unconsciously, automatically categorizing and characterizing, and then failing to correct that initial impression.

This research revealed that there are four main differences between the lives of lucky and unlucky people: Lucky people constantly encounter chance opportunities. They accidentally meet people who have a very beneficial effect on their lives and come across interesting opportunities in newspapers and magazines. In contrast, unlucky people rarely ha