Your personal values indicate how you want to behave and what kind of person you want to be.

Unpleasant feelings can stop you from doing what you want or think is important.

Unhelpful thoughts can block us from living the life we want.

You want the better feeling it produces, not the habit itself.

Why our brains are not built for continuous happiness and how to deal with this.

The narrative fallacy is our tendency to create incorrect cause-and-effect stories out of one or more events.

The planning fallacy is our tendency to underestimate the time, costs, and risks of future tasks, while overestimating their benefits.

The affect heuristic is our tendency to make judgements and decisions based on our current emotions.

The availability heuristic is our tendency to assume that things that come to mind easily are more common than they really are.

It often takes more than facts to change people’s minds

The focusing illusion is a cognitive bias that leads us to overestimate the importance of something because we focus our attention on it.

How to get from what you think you want to what you really want.

Survivorship bias is our tendency to focus on the successful outcomes (survivors, winners) of a particular situation, while overlooking the unsuccessful outcomes (failures, losers).

We tend to favour information that supports our pre-existing beliefs.

We give more attention and weight to negative stimuli than to positive ones.

Making something of your life is about creating a meaningful life by being fully present in the here and now, accepting all your inner experiences, and taking actions that are consistent with your personal values.