Self-awareness – knowing what you believe and why

In my self-awareness posts I write about our brains as seen through the lenses of evolutionary and social psychology, neuroscience, and beyond. Only by understanding ourselves can we improve ourselves. Worldviews are a useful tool here for mapping out our beliefs, and then critiquing them and improving them.

Some specific topics covered are: evolutionary & social psychology, neuroscience, biases, heuristics, clarity, values, history, culture, worldviews, beliefs

A Lack of Time is a Lack of Priorities

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Sometimes the simplest ideas really stick out. This was particularly true for me when I read Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek. I pulled a bunch of good ideas from his book, but one in particular that stands above the rest is this: a lack of time is a lack of priorities. I think this idea […]

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15 Benefits of the Growth Mindset

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Followup to: Why Your Mindset is So Important Want to have more fun in life? Enjoy learning? Have better relationships? Improve your business? A growth mindset is associated with all of these benefits plus more. This simple attitude impacts your success, health, happiness, careers, and relationships. Your mindset is the view you adopt of yourself—whether your […]

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How the Mind Works – TED.com

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My last post linked to some of Dan Gilbert’s TED talks on happiness and cognitive biases. But then I noticed there’s a whole section on TED called How the Mind Works! Lots of very cool, very accessible stuff. Check it out here. /// Image from TED.com.

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Dan Gilbert on Happiness and Expectations – TED.com

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Dan Gilbert is a social psychologist at Harvard University. He is known for his research in cognitive biases (systematic errors in our thinking) and affective forecasting (predicting one’s emotional state in the future, such as predicting how happy you would be a month after winning the lottery). He has two cool videos on TED.com, both […]

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