We all know the secret of dieting...it's the application that's challenging. p 7
I suggested that he write from 11:00 to 1:00 every weekday. During that time, he was to write or do nothing. No email; no calls; no research; no clearing off a desk; no hanging out with Jack, my adora...
I was comforted by the words of my model Benjamin Franklin, who reflected of his own chart: On the whole, though I never arrived at perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short...
Research shows that the more elements make up your identity, the less threatening it is when any one element is threatened.
Day three days a week for six weeks,
I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change.
IF IT’S ON THE CALENDAR, IT HAPPENS
My happiness project was both. I wanted to perfect my character, but given my nature, that would probably involve charts, deliverables, to-do lists, new vocabulary terms, and compulsive note taking.
My home is a place of unconditional belonging, which is part of its pleasure, part of its pain—as Robert Frost wrote, home is Something you somehow haven’t to deserve. At home, I feel a greater sense...
If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough. Over-the-counter
If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough.
Research—and my own experience—suggests that the less we indulge in something, the less we want it. When we believe that a craving will remain unsatisfied, it may diminish; cravings are more provoked...
In fact, for both men and women—and this finding struck me as highly significant—the most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn’t make a...
Underreact to a problem
Research suggests that when we have conflicting goals, we don’t manage ourselves well. We become anxious and paralyzed, and we often end up doing nothing.
In other words, even though one coin certainly isn’t sufficient to make a man rich, a man only becomes rich by adding one coin after another.
Research suggests that about 40 percent of our behavior is repeated almost daily, and mostly in the same context.
It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.
It’s a Secret of Adulthood: If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn’t selfish.
It’s a Secret of Adulthood: The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.
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