Why pursue goals in wealth, fitness, status and mastery only to find that achieving them doesn’t really change our lives very much? Here are 7 maxims on what to do instead.
When Procrastination is Productive
Productivity isn’t throwing out all your existing commitments in the fanatical pursuit of a big ambition. Instead, choosing what matters and organizing your time and energy to reach it.
The Science of Mental Models
Diving deep into Johnson-Laird’s theory of mental models. It is one of the leading psychological theories of reasoning, even though it doesn’t have the status of being a consensus theory (few theories in psychology do).
How to Learn Vocabulary in Another Language
When it comes to our native languages, researchers already have a pretty good idea of how we learn words, and it’s not through studying vocabulary lists. Here’s what it takes.
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