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Determine a path to where you want to go
How to determine a life path that will take you from where you are now to where you want to go.
Determine where you want to go
To design and build a rich, full and meaningful life, you need to know where you want to go.
Determine where you are now
Designing and building a rich, full and meaningful life can only start from where you are now.
How to hold your self-stories lightly
Reduce the negative impact of unhelpful self-stories by holding them lightly.
How to connect to the present moment
How to be more mentally present in your life and engage in activities that you find valuable.
How to let your thoughts come and go
Let your thoughts come and go while keeping your attention on what you’re doing.
Finding your life purpose: How to discover what you want to do in life
If you're unsure about what to do in life, try to discover your life purpose.
How to figure out your personal values
Your personal values indicate how you want to behave and what kind of person you want to be.
How to reduce the impact of unpleasant feelings
Unpleasant feelings can stop you from doing what you want or think is important.
How to defuse unhelpful thoughts
Unhelpful thoughts can block us from living the life we want.
How to replace a bad habit by understanding its underlying motive
You want the better feeling it produces, not the habit itself.
Why you are not made to be happy
Why our brains are not built for continuous happiness and how to deal with this.
Narrative fallacy: Why many of your explanatory stories are incorrect
The narrative fallacy is our tendency to create incorrect cause-and-effect stories out of one or more events.
Why projects always take longer than you think
The planning fallacy is our tendency to underestimate the time, costs, and risks of future tasks, while overestimating their benefits.
Why environmental organisations show cute animals
The affect heuristic is our tendency to make judgements and decisions based on our current emotions.
Availability heuristic: Why violent crimes are less common than you think
The availability heuristic is our tendency to assume that things that come to mind easily are more common than they really are.
Why moving to a Mediterranean climate won’t make you happier
The focusing illusion is a cognitive bias that leads us to overestimate the importance of something because we focus our attention on it.
What you think you want is not what you really want
How to get from what you think you want to what you really want.
Why strategies used by successful people don’t work for you
Survivorship bias is our tendency to focus on the successful outcomes (survivors, winners) of a particular situation, while overlooking the unsuccessful outcomes (failures, losers).