A reader posted about a more modest change: I dreaded my dentist appointment because I knew they’d ask how often I floss. It occurred to me that I could just floss every day, and then that question wo...
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Mere acquisition isn't enough to establish a good habit
Book Happier, Tal Ben-Shahar
A quotation from Lewis’s brilliant essay On Three Ways of Writing for Children: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fif...
Thoreau admonished, Our life is frittered away by detail.… Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! This longing for simplicity is so powerful and complex that it needs its own term, much like nostalgie de...
This Doesn’t Count Loophole: We tell ourselves that for some reason, this circumstance doesn’t count.
They’re perceived to be more friendly, warmer, and even more physically attractive. A study showed that students who were happy as college freshmen were earning more money in their midthirties—without...
The reward for a good habit is the habit itself.
The bus was hardly moving, but I could hardly keep pace with my own thoughts. I’ve got to tackle this, I told myself. As soon as I have some free time, I should start a happiness project. But I never...
The Habits Manifesto What we do every day matters more than what we do once in a while. Make it easy to do right and hard to go wrong. Focus on actions, not outcomes. By giving something up, we may ga...
Technology is a good servant but a bad master.
So where should we start? It’s helpful to begin with habits that most directly strengthen self-control; these habits serve as the Foundation for forming other good habits.
Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.
People who feel less guilt and who show compassion toward themselves in the face of failure are better able to regain self-control, while people who feel deeply guilty and full of self-blame struggle...
One parent of a Rebel explained, The best way to wrangle the Rebel child is to give the kid the information to make a decision, present the issue as a question that he alone can answer, and let him ma...
One of my most helpful Secrets of Adulthood is What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while.
One lives in the naïve notion that later there will be more room than in the entire past. —Elias Canetti, The Human Province
Once I’ve cleared away the things I don’t need, use, or love, my surroundings reveal to me, and to others, the things that matter most to me. Careful curation means that my space and my possessions re...
On Three Ways of Writing for Children: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a ma...