We need a lot more than just automatic behaviors to sustain a change. We need knowledge to guide the right actions, self-efficacy to know we are capable of taking them, rules and systems for managing decisions, courage to overcome our fears and a shift of identity to sustain it throughout the innumerable disruptions that will occur in life.
I’m 36
Today is my birthday. Continuing a tradition I began half a lifetime ago, this is an update on my life over the last year and my plans for the year ahead. This year was a transitional one. My second book, Get Better at Anything, was published in May. It was a central project of mine […]
5 Ways to Increase Your Learning Throughput
The decision to learn more is always a decision to do less of something else. Keeping that in mind, here are my top 5 tips increase your learning.
The Three Gaps
Three gaps in knowledge define the quality of our lives: the difference between objective truth and the state of current science, the gap between science and common sense, and finally between common sense and everyday practice.
I'm a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, podcast host, computer programmer and an avid reader. Since 2006, I've published weekly essays on this website to help people like you learn and think better. My work has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, TEDx, Pocket, Business Insider and more. I don't promise I have all the answers, just a place to start.