Self-awareness
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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Self-mastery
A key part of mastering ourselves is being aware of our thoughts as they happen. The concept of mindfulness plays a key role in Buddhist meditation and has been practiced for thousands of years. Of course, just because a thing is ancient doesn’t mean it’s valuable. Meditation – in the non-mystical, secular sense – seems to […]
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