The Expectation Effect

We tend to believe that someone else will deal with a crisis. 

This developed for good reason: if a threatening wild animal is lurking at the edge of our hunter-gatherer group, it’s a waste of effort for every single member to spring into action. Today, however, this leads us to assu...

Many of us are stopped from being able to do pull-ups is our mistaken belief that we can't do it. The notion inside our mind that we can't do a pull-up is a major reason for our incapacity to do it.

Another reason most people cannot do pull-ups is the lack of regular ...

• Known as the First-Night Effect, many of us aren’t able to sleep properly at a new place the first time.
• The reason for this, according to research, is that half our brain (the left hemisphere, mostly) stays awake in alert mode. This area of the brain is called the defau...