I’ve learned to put great store in my own observations of everyday life, because while laboratory experiments are one way to study human nature, they aren’t the only way.
In particular, I’d realized that although I possessed all the elements of a happy life, too often I took my circumstances for granted and allowed myself to become overly vexed by petty annoyances or f...
If I feel anxious about the fact that I haven’t started, I become even more reluctant to start, which just makes me more anxious.
I later changed my passwords to a goal I’ve been working on, or an achievement I want.
I didn’t want to be like the novelist who spent so much time rewriting his first sentence that he never wrote his second.
He that stumbles, and does not quite fall, gains a step.
For Moderators, the first bite tastes the best, and then their pleasure gradually drops, and they might even stop eating before they’re finished. For Abstainers, however, the desire for each bite is j...