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Category Archives: Psychology
Sleep on Concrete
Something Sebastian Marshall said to me a long while back has really stuck with me: sleep on concrete. Anyone who has travelled a lot has literally done this at least once. Â Baggage handlers go on strike and the airport shuts … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Money, Psychology
Tagged Lifestyle, Philosophy, Stoicism
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For several hundred years now, most businesses have fought to keep things secret. Â Ingredients, techniques, processes, suppliers, you name it. Â Anything that might be a competitive advantage would attempt to be shielded from competitors and the public. Â In fact, the … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Psychology, Rationality
Tagged Mystique, Secrecy, Share, Sharing
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Disciplined Mindwandering, or The Benefits of Daydreaming
Jonathan Schooler, the psychologist who helped pioneer the study of insight, has recently begun studying the benefits of daydreams. Â His lab has demonstrated that people who consistently engage in more daydreaming score significantly higher on measures of creativity. Â To evaluate … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Psychology, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Daydream, Ideas, Jonah Lehrer, Mind Wandering
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Lies, Happiness, and The Tyranny of the Biographer
Being happy in your life and being happy about your life are very different concepts. This is a result of the fact that you have, in a sense, two selfs. There is an experiencing self, who lives in the present, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality
Tagged Daniel Kahneman, Happiness, Rationality, TED, Thinking
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It’s Hard And I’m Just Not Passionate About It…
“It’s hard, and I’m just not passionate about it, and I’m thinking of giving up – will you tell me it’s OK to give up, so I’ll feel better about it in the morning?†It’s rarely about difficulty or enthusiasm. … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Psychology, Quotes
Tagged Hard, Passion, Perseverance, Work
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Language and Rationality
Thinking in a different language may lead to more rational decisions: Keysar’s team recruited 54 University of Chicago students who spoke Spanish as a second language. Each received $15 in $1 bills, each of which could be kept or bet … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality, Uncategorized
Tagged Language, Rationality, Reason
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On Role Models
We need to set our affections on some good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing. Â Misdeeds … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Leading, Psychology, Quotes, Relationships
Tagged Guide, Letters to a Stoic, Mentor, Role Model, Seneca
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How To Be 10x Happier In Just 60 Minutes A Day
If you have a job, chances are most of your waking hours are not your own.  Most of all your hours may not be your own.  Between the time it takes you to get ready in the morning, your commute, and … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Choice, Control, Depression, Fear, Happiness, How to be Happy
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How Criticism Encourages Creativity
We’re taught to think that brainstorming is an effective way to generate ideas and spur creative thought. Â The key to successful brainstorming, it was thought, was lack of a lack of criticism. Â This makes sense: if people aren’t afraid that … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality
Tagged Brainstorming, Creativity, Imagine, Jonah Lehrer, Meeting
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Overvaluing What We Have
One of the worst tricks we manage to play on ourselves is overvaluing what we already have and undervaluing what we don’t. Â This is especially sad since most of us don’t have all that much anyway, and taking the chance … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Choice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality
Tagged Change, Doing, Happiness, Irrational Behavior, Value
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The Fastest Way to Change
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. – The Startup of You Human beings are such easily influenced creatures. Â The way we laugh is influenced by … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Psychology, Quotes, Relationships
Tagged Change, Friends, relationships
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On Cheating
People become more likely to lie or cheat when they see others lie or cheat, explains Dan Ariely: …we gave participants 5 minutes to solve as many mathematical problems as possible (where they were instructed to find which two numbers … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality, Relationships
Tagged Cheating, Dan Ariely, Taxes
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Color and Creativity
What color should you paint that room? Â It depends on what you want to do there. Â If you need to pay close attention to detail oriented work, paint it red. Â If you want to maximize the chance for creative insight, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Creativity, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality
Tagged Color, Creativity, Design, Focus, Imagination, Jonah Lehrer
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Constraints Breed Creativity
Why would anyone constrain themselves to writing poetry in Haiku? Why would Shakespeare force himself to write entire plays in iambic pentameter? Â This makes no sense. Â Think about how much harder it would be to write a play where each … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Quotes
Tagged Creativity, Imagine, Jonah Lehrer
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Big Money
There’s a not-so-strange tendency for people make really poor financial decisions when there’s a lot of money involved. If you’re buying a $50,000 car that comes with 17″ aluminum wheels, but the salesman offers you the fancy 18″ chrome wheels … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Psychology, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Dream, Goals, Money, Personal Finance, Plan, Savings, Value
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