Personal Development

July 9, 2021 Setting Work Boundaries
July 2, 2021 Experimentalism: An Alternative to Perfectionism
June 25, 2021 Giving Ourselves Credit
June 18, 2021 It's Not My Fault
June 11, 2021 On the Importance of Volunteering
June 4, 2021 A Conversation With Our Inner Critic
May 21, 2021 On Managing Time Debt
May 7, 2021 Get the First Try Out of the Way
April 16, 2021 The Great Thing About Decisions
March 19, 2021 Don't Sweat the Coffee: On Ignoring the Trivial
February 19, 2021 Choose Your Hobbies Carefully
February 5, 2021 Be a Student of Your Own Past Behavior
January 29, 2021 Feedback: A Simple Tool to Create Change
January 15, 2021 Approaching a Crisis Like a Professional
January 1, 2021 This Year, Make Good Behaviors Easier
December 18, 2020 Think Days: Investing in Your Future
December 11, 2020 Working Like a Freelancer
December 4, 2020 Emotional Reasoning: Feelings Aren't Facts
November 27, 2020 Every Night, a Little Thanksgiving
November 13, 2020 The Right Way to Say No
November 6, 2020 What Leadership is Really About
October 30, 2020 On Self-Compassionate Productivity
October 23, 2020 During Hard Times, Focus on Others
October 16, 2020 Separating Productivity from Self-Worth
October 9, 2020 Don't Try to Get Through the Day
October 2, 2020 Make It Easy For People to Help You
September 18, 2020 The Benefits of a Professional Reading List
September 4, 2020 Two Benefits of Living More Intentionally
August 21, 2020 Career Advice: Don’t Cut Your Own Path
August 14, 2020 For a Good Life, Knowledge Isn't Enough
July 31, 2020 Introducing Crimely: Or, The Downside of Too Much News
July 24, 2020 What Musicians Know
July 17, 2020 Do the Next Right Thing
July 3, 2020 The First Step to Solving Big Problems
June 19, 2020 Taking Failure Seriously (But Not Too Seriously)
June 5, 2020 Assuming Good Faith
May 29, 2020 Always Do More than You Get Paid For
May 15, 2020 Give Yourself a Pep Talk: Andy Grove on Leadership
May 8, 2020 An Easy Way to Improve Your Understanding of Human Behavior
May 1, 2020 Want to Learn About Yourself? Start a Garden.
April 17, 2020 Should You Use Social Media During a Pandemic?
April 10, 2020 Reclaim Your Free Time with Active Leisure
March 27, 2020 Everything Counts for More
March 20, 2020 Change, Crises, and Clarity
February 28, 2020 Feelings vs. Information: What People Remember
February 21, 2020 Being Successful vs. Being Useful
February 14, 2020 Avoiding Error Chains
January 31, 2020 Bad Is Stronger Than Good, So Save Your Thank-You Notes
January 24, 2020 How I Started Drinking Enough Water (With No Effort)
January 17, 2020 Make It Easy to Say Yes
January 10, 2020 Is This Good for Me? Cleaning Up Our Mental Diet
January 3, 2020 6 Short Questions for a New Decade
December 27, 2019 Addition By Subtraction: Planning For a Calmer Year
December 20, 2019 A Brief Argument for Reviving Your Reading Habit
November 22, 2019 Never Miss Twice: A Middle Path to Building Good Habits
November 8, 2019 On Intentional Communication: Don’t Pick Up the Rope
November 1, 2019 On Personal Change without Change
October 11, 2019 The Space Between Stimulus and Response: On Observing Our Emotions
October 4, 2019 Paying the Price of Success
September 20, 2019 On Practicing at Work
September 13, 2019 On Change
August 2, 2019 Three Alternatives to Willpower
July 19, 2019 Choosing How Much We Care
July 12, 2019 The Story of Disneyland’s Trash Cans
July 5, 2019 A Bad Plan Beats No Plan
June 28, 2019 Imperfect Consistency and the Real Test
June 21, 2019 On Being a Mood-Changer
June 14, 2019 The Smartest Career Move You Can Make
June 7, 2019 Using Public Deadlines to Fight Procrastination
May 31, 2019 On Resistance to Organizational Change
May 17, 2019 How to Spot a Bad Self-Help Book
May 10, 2019 Don’t Forget to Celebrate
May 3, 2019 Why It's Okay Not to Have an Opinion
April 26, 2019 On the Importance of Think Days
April 19, 2019 Strengths and Weaknesses: Two Sides of the Same Coin
April 12, 2019 Put On Your Own Mask First
March 29, 2019 On Accepting the World As It Is
March 22, 2019 “Reading the Books” vs. Talent
March 15, 2019 Leadership Tip: The Golden Rule of Change Management
January 25, 2019 How to Skim a Book, and Why You Should
January 4, 2019 Two Tips for Improved New Year's Resolutions
December 28, 2018 A Tip for Managing New Holiday Gifts
December 21, 2018 How to Use Counterfactual Thinking to Your Advantage
November 30, 2018 Hardship and Perseverance: Lessons from an Astronaut
November 23, 2018 3 Ways to Begin a Daily Gratitude Practice
November 16, 2018 What "Math People" Know
November 9, 2018 My Niece's TEDx Talk
October 26, 2018 Improving Our Chances for Personal Change
October 19, 2018 How to Make Your Goals More Motivating
October 12, 2018 Here's How to Remember Important Conversations
October 5, 2018 An Ode to Taking Action
September 14, 2018 What to Read Next? Out with the New, In with the Old.
August 21, 2018 On Avoiding Becoming Jaded
August 10, 2018 Update Your Headshot
August 7, 2018 Use It or Lose It
July 27, 2018 Cheating Others Out of Our Best Work
July 20, 2018 Einstellung and the Internet
July 10, 2018 All Twelve Keys
July 6, 2018 When Is a Jerk a Jerk?
July 3, 2018 Notice What's Working
June 29, 2018 Pull the Weeds While They’re Small
June 19, 2018 Confronting a Good Book That’s Got a Little Crazy In It
June 12, 2018 Changing a Behavior? Start With Your Environment.
June 5, 2018 We’re Poor Judges of Our Own Behavior
June 1, 2018 The Time Will Pass Anyway: Evaluating Long-Term Goals
May 25, 2018 Astronaut Jim Lovell on Workplace Problems
May 22, 2018 Effective Living: Leave It Better Than You Found It
May 18, 2018 No Time for a Think Week? Take Think Days Instead.
May 11, 2018 Upcoming Experiment: The Think Week
May 1, 2018 We Could All Use a Little Coaching
April 24, 2018 Life is a Steak: a Metaphor for Understanding Work
April 20, 2018 Haggling? Ackerman Bargaining Is the Formula You’ve Been Looking For
April 17, 2018 Costly Signals: How We Prove We Mean Business
April 13, 2018 How to Read . . . Less? When to Put a Book Down
April 10, 2018 How to Make Your Life Worse in 5 Steps
April 6, 2018 The Value of Easy Changes
April 3, 2018 Yelling At the Mechanic
March 30, 2018 Case Study: Email Etiquette and Varying Worldviews
March 23, 2018 On Old-School Information Gathering: Less Googling, More Talking
March 16, 2018 Pop-Tarts and Restraint Bias: How Much Self-Control Can We Count On?
March 6, 2018 The Stockdale Paradox: Faith and Discipline
March 2, 2018 Principles of Adult Behavior: 25 Ideas for Living with Dignity
February 23, 2018 Pain Points: How to Make Yourself More Valuable at Work
February 20, 2018 What to Do When You’re Not Feeling Up to It
February 6, 2018 Minimalism: How Much Stuff Should We Own?
January 23, 2018 To Argue More Productively, Ask This Question
January 16, 2018 Cognitive Biases: Weeding Our Mental Garden
October 31, 2017 How to Read More Books: 8 Tips
October 20, 2017 What Is Stoicism, and How Can It Make Your Life Better?
October 10, 2017 The Problem with Minimalism
September 26, 2017 How Habits Work (and How to Change Bad Ones for Good)
September 22, 2017 An Ancient Technique for Weathering Life’s Storms
September 8, 2017 7 Questions to Ask Before You Give Up
August 11, 2017 3 Books You Should Read Immediately
August 4, 2017 6 Ways to Become More Resilient
August 1, 2017 Anticipating Difficulty: What's in Your Emotional Toolbox?
July 25, 2017 Want to Make a Big Change? Think Small.
July 14, 2017 4 Reasons You Should Start Keeping a Journal
July 7, 2017 My Snickers Problem: When to Compromise With Yourself
June 27, 2017 You Are the Average of the 5 People You Spend the Most Time With
June 20, 2017 How We Paid Off $48,000 of Student Loan Debt in Two Years
June 16, 2017 From Subway to MacArthur Genius Grant: A Case Study in Perseverance
June 13, 2017 Fitness: The Other Four Kinds
June 9, 2017 All Work Is Group Work
June 2, 2017 In Praise of the Humble Thank-You Note
May 30, 2017 Rickets of the Mind
May 23, 2017 Setting Some Ground Rules
May 12, 2017 Take the Lane: When Safe Feels Dangerous (and Dangerous Feels Safe)
May 9, 2017 3 Unconventional Tips for Becoming More Confident
May 5, 2017 5 Ways to Keep Politics in Perspective
May 2, 2017 How to Keep Fear from Making Decisions for You
April 18, 2017 6 Tips for Resolving Workplace Conflicts
April 7, 2017 At Work, Look to Give (Not to Receive)
April 4, 2017 Let Go of What You Can’t Control (That Includes Your Past Mistakes)
March 31, 2017 You Already Know What to Do, and That’s Half the Battle
March 24, 2017 It’s the Set of the Sail, Not the Direction of the Wind
March 21, 2017 Is Your Life Unbalanced Lately? Don’t Worry About It. Here’s Why.
March 3, 2017 What a Baby Pooping in Your Lap Can Teach You
February 21, 2017 Pay Attention Carefully
February 14, 2017 We Are All Hypocrites
February 3, 2017 All Mistakes Are Not Created Equal
January 31, 2017 How to Harness the Incredible Benefits of Long-Term Thinking
January 27, 2017 Three Reasons We Give In to Short-Term Thinking (and Why It’s Bad)
January 24, 2017 My 2016 Jimmy John’s Bill (or, How Short-Term Thinking Can Ruin Your Life)
January 20, 2017 Does Failure Encourage Compassion for Others?
January 17, 2017 Become Happier by Making Room in Your Life
January 13, 2017 What Do We Really Want at Work?
January 6, 2017 The Problem with Lucky Breaks
January 3, 2017 Our New Baby Girl (and 3 Ways to Avoid Catastrophizing)
December 30, 2016 You Can’t Rush The Important Stuff
December 23, 2016 What a Year of Daily Trumpet Practice Taught Me
December 9, 2016 Home Improvement vs. Self-Improvement
December 2, 2016 Do You Need a Plan?
November 29, 2016 Does Your Job Fit in a Manual?
November 25, 2016 How to Be Grateful (When You Don't Feel Grateful)
November 15, 2016 Consider Writing a Failure Résumé
November 11, 2016 How to Help Others: Share Your Failures
November 4, 2016 What Makes a Good Day?
November 1, 2016 Hanlon’s Razor and Compassion for Others
October 28, 2016 The Four-Year Plan
October 21, 2016 Life Is Not a Zero-Sum Game, So Give Generously
October 7, 2016 How to Deal with Uncertainty (When You Hate Uncertainty)
September 30, 2016 Anything Worth Doing is Uncomfortable at First
September 27, 2016 The Philosophy Major and the Business Major
September 23, 2016 14 Questions about Leadership
September 9, 2016 Exposure Therapy and Your Work
September 6, 2016 11 Ways to Avoid Improvement
September 2, 2016 Great Leaders Expect Complexity, Not Simplicity
August 23, 2016 Feeling Ready Isn’t a Useful Measurement
August 12, 2016 Don't Look at the Roadkill
July 26, 2016 Problems with Personal Development, Part II
July 22, 2016 Problems with Personal Development, Part I
July 19, 2016 The Hedonic Treadmill and How to Live More Effectively
July 5, 2016 Your Comfort Zone and Safety Zone
June 24, 2016 Default Answer: Yes or No?
June 21, 2016 Make Opportunities Fit You
June 17, 2016 Ask Boldly
June 14, 2016 3 Steps to Living an Intentional Life
June 7, 2016 Gratitude Check-Up: Four Questions to Ask Yourself
June 3, 2016 Can You Say Yes When Your Life is Full?
May 31, 2016 How to Take a Habit Inventory
May 13, 2016 Please Remember Rule Number 6
May 6, 2016 Is Self-Improvement Selfish?
May 3, 2016 What to Do When It’s Not Ready
April 26, 2016 When to Argue With Someone
April 19, 2016 How Do You Relax?
April 15, 2016 How to Become a Happy Taxpayer
April 12, 2016 Think Like a Freelancer
April 8, 2016 Be Nice to Future You
April 1, 2016 Books That Changed My Life, Part II
March 29, 2016 Books That Changed My Life, Part I
March 25, 2016 Expect the Expected
March 22, 2016 How Hindsight Bias Steals Our Credit
March 18, 2016 How Your Personal Philosophy Controls Your Life
February 23, 2016 The Power of Gratitude: Some Things I'm Grateful For
February 5, 2016 The Power of On Purpose
January 20, 2016 3 Reasons to Start Reading More
January 8, 2016 Failure is Good. So Are You Failing Enough?
January 3, 2016 Three Reasons You Should Try to Improve: An Argument for Personal Development
December 28, 2015 What is Personal Development, and Why Should You Care?