Research has highlighted the fact that we have many blind spots when it comes to understanding our patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.
If you want to make a difference in the world, the single most important thing you can do is consciously and deliberately choose to do work that you are passionate about.
Sometimes work can be a drag. You get caught up in trying to be more productive, and suddenly your life turns into a series of to-do lists.
Everyone is essentially self-employed -- and that even if you're an employee, you should think of yourself as the President of your own personal services corporation.
I don’t know about you, but I want more than just security. I want to live, not simply survive.
Psychological scientists have found that the size of different parts of people's brains correspond to their personalities; for example, conscientious people tend to have a bigger lateral prefrontal cortex, a region of the brain involved in planning and controlling behavior.
What if you currently live a very comfortable lifestyle and you have a lot of assets? How can you justify running off to do what truly makes you happy if it might put all your current assets at risk?
Most self-help books on the subject offer tips on how to maximize one’s bliss, but one study suggests that moderate happiness may be preferable to full-fledged elation.
The prolific life has been characterized by abundant inventiveness and limitless creativity, and has been enshrouded in a veil of mystery - the sources of artistic inventiveness are too often viewed as out-of-reach for the average person.
Some argue that happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
When faced with a difficult decision, we try to come up with the best choice by carefully considering all of the options, maybe even resorting to lists and lots of sleepless nights.
It's not just in movies where nerds get their revenge.
Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out and undertake new goals in life and this reinforces positive emotions, say researchers who examined the connections between desirable characteristics, life successes and well-being of over 275,000 people.
People who consider themselves visual learners, as opposed to verbal learners, have a tendency to convert linguistically presented information into a visual mental representation.
People who watch funny videos on the internet at work aren't necessarily wasting time.
A study has found that you are more likely to perform well if you do not think too hard, and instead trust your instincts.
While some psychologists still argue that people perform better when they do something because they want to, research suggests we shouldn't even make that distinction.
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
You know what it's like: No focus, lots of stress, lots of mental exhaustion without really getting anything done.
I couldn't motivate myself to do anything important this morning, which is a rare thing for me. I started to doubt myself, and wonder whether anything I do is worthwhile.
The paradox of happiness is that chasing it may actually make us less happy, a Stanford researcher says.
For centuries, scientists have studied how we go about the difficult task of choosing A or B, left or right, North or South - and how both instinct and intellect figure into the process.
We all know that if you’re truly passionate about something, productivity becomes largely irrelevant.
Trying to resist that late-night tweet or checking your work email again?
For some people, neither the carrot nor the stick will serve as a motivational tool
Some lessons that apply equally to getting buff and to building your business
Multitaskers who think they can successfully divide their attention between the program on their television set and the information on their computer screen proved to be driven to distraction by the two devices.
Let’s say you are sitting at your desk, with something to write, and you notice some anxiety… and an urge...
This checklist by Dr María Machón includes typical triggers for procrastination, along with possible solutions for each trigger.
None of us make decisions based on reality itself. We make decisions based on our beliefs about reality.