Past experiences

Life can feel overwhelming. With so many new technologies and ways of doing things, knowing what to pay attention to can be difficult.

In How to Think Like Shakespeare, professor Scott Newstok writes about what people of the past have already learned about better thinking

Skills and knowledge transfer far less than we would expect them to. So “broad-based” education is mostly a myth. What we learn is usually specific and often stuck to the contexts where it was learned.

Research has shown that time and time again, money doesn’t really buy you happiness (even though most of us think it does). 

What you should put your money toward — rather than buying more stuff — are experiences or charity. 

Research has shown that w...