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Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths

Spearman was right that people differ in their ability to solve well-defined problems. But he was wrong that well-defined problems are the only kind of problems. “Why can’t I find someone to spend my life with?” “Should I be a dentist or a dancer?” and “How do I get my child to stop crying?” are all important but poorly defined problems. “How can w... See more

Adam Mastroianni • Why aren't smart people happier?

According to Igor Grossmann1, a Toronto-based psychologist and wisdom researcher, perspective-taking is necessary for wisdom. At the heart of wisdom is what he calls “perspectival meta-cognition,” which includes the ability to consider multiple viewpoints. This can be dangerous to agency maximizers, as it risks disrupting the clarity that a singula... See more

Peter Limberg • How to Win Friends and Get Things Done ... With Wisdom?

People also have to decide what kinds of relationships they want: ones that bolster their egos or ones that challenge them to grow?

Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

For a good brief introduction to the Big Five, check out Sanjay Srivastava’s Web site: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sanjay/bigfive.html. For a more advanced treatment, see John, O. P., & Srivastava, S. (1999). The Big Five Trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives. In L. A. Pervin & O. P. John (Eds.), Handbook of pe

Sam Gosling • Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You

Research on highly creative adults shows that they tended to move to new cities much more frequently than their peers in childhood, which gave them exposure to different cultures and values, and encouraged flexibility and adaptability.

Adam Grant • Originals

It’s easy to understand why institutions want to reduce motivation to a simple one-dimensional scale or a small set of universal motives. It makes life much easier for the authorities because in a standardized system individuality is a problem.

Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment

curiosity, determination, resourcefulness, sociability and reflectiveness.

Bill Lucas • New Kinds of Smart

Oshin Vartanian compared and analysed the daily workflows of Nobel Prize winners and other eminent scientists and concluded that it is not a relentless focus, but flexible focus that distinguishes them. “Specifically, the problem-solving behavior of eminent scientists can alternate between extraordinary levels of focus on specific concepts and play

Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers