Unconscious motivation plays a substantial role in how we respond to challenges. Find out how much.
If you don’t know how, learn how. Use that fancy brain that learned how to walk, talk, and read. It’s still capable of further learning, is it not? Of course it is!
Freedom and personal autonomy are more important to people's well-being than money, according to a meta-analysis of data from 63 countries.
It seems really simple: If you want to achieve something, set a goal and then make specific plans to implement it.
The authors of this study looked closely at the ways beginners versus experts respond to negative or positive feedback.
A researcher demystifies this game of success, and shows that exceptional performance is not necessarily the direct result of special talent, experience, or sheer luck.
A high sense of control all but wipes out educational differences when it comes to mortality.
People who watch funny videos on the internet at work aren't necessarily wasting time.
Sometimes immersing yourself in the creative world of people doing amazing things can bring unexpected results.
A professor has recently published his magnum opus on the subject of procrastination - and it's only taken him 10 years.
You might think that a loving partner helps keep you on track -- say, when you want to stick to your jogging or concentrate on your studies.
Looking for a good book? Stay away from the award-winning section of the bookstore or library.
It’s very simple: your MIT is the task you most want or need to get done today.
Gretchen Rubin is a published author who wrote 'The Happiness Project' -- a memoir about how test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study she could find -- whether from Aristotle or St Therese or Martin Seligman or Oprah.
Fifty years ago, an old country doctor drove to town, hitched his horse, quietly slipped into a drug store by the back door. His mission was destined to bring to the South the most far-flung benefit since the Civil War.
When we're waiting in line or sitting in a boring meeting, time seems to slow down to a trickle. And when we get caught up in something completely engrossing - a gripping thriller, for example - we may lose sense of time altogether.
The problem isn't capturing our creativity, as individual inspiration is a steady pulse that beats within us all. The problem is keeping those embers hot once we have them in our grasp.
Educators have tried to boost learning by focusing on differences in learning styles. Management consultants tout the impact that different...
First, you must decide exactly what it is you want to accomplish. And secondly, you must determine what price you'll have to pay to get it, and then resolve to pay that price.
A study of the sexes reveals that when it comes to starting a business, women are more likely than men to consider individual responsibility, and use business as a vehicle for social and environmental change.
Impulse and determination: Those two are probably the most important keywords of my life.
Let’s say you have an agenda, and every time one of you wandered off the agenda, you forced yourself to get back on it. Would the conversation be better or worse, with a set outcome?
We have all had them as we set and go after our goals, no matter where we are or what our goals may be: naysayers, detractors, people who poke fun or get angry, or who simply tell us we can’t do it.
Have you ever had the experience of looking back on your week with the sinking feeling that you didn't get as much done as you'd hoped?
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.
Whether bloggers are writing to change the world, or just discussing a bad break-up, they may get an extra boost of motivation from traffic-measuring and interactive tools that help them feel more connected to and more influential in their communities.
When there are conflicting demands from work, home and the classroom, any hectic time can be filled with stress.
When asked during an interview how he managed to reach the top as a professional bodybuilder and Hollywood actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger replied with a single word: "Drive!"
Backpackers scored 50 percent better on a creativity test after spending four days in nature disconnected from electronic devices, according to a study by psychologists from the University of Utah and University of Kansas.
Here's how the exceptionally persistent, incredibly confident and remarkably talented architect and sculptor Filippo Brunelleschi used his smarts to ultimately win the contract to build the dome on the Duomo in Florence.