It is easy to both form and support your beliefs. It’s in the evaluation—and especially rejection—that effort is involved.
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Mental shortcuts are features, not flaws. Biases are rules being used out of context. How can we avoid the pitfalls and make more rational decisions?
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You have to pay attention to your goals if you ever want to achieve them. But while you pay for this attention with your time, there is something else you sacrifice when you decide to attend to something: everything else you could be attending to. When we sit down and write, we are also deciding…
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Someone told my younger self I should learn something new every day. The rest of your time can be filled with monotonous activities, but as long as you learn one little thing, you’re growing. Learning one thing a day is a piece of cake now. Considering how easy it is to access to new and…
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The line between remembering and forgetting is hazy. We struggle with things on the tips of our tongues, know we have seen someone before but can’t remember where, sometimes we even claim to remember something our brain has totally made up. There are many things stored within our memory that we are unaware of. We only…
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