Knowing isn't doing

Misery can be influenced by your circumstances, but it is largely indifferent to them because it grows from within. Most of us have everything that we need to avoid it, but our untrained brains are prone to create it through anxiety.

This concept is easy to understand but it requires...

In an age of infinite leverage, judgment becomes the most important skill

Everything else that you do is actually setting you up to apply your judgment. That's why CEOs get paid more. If you’re steering Google or Apple, and your judgment is 10 percent better than the next person’s, society...

Habits are hard to start and even harder to maintain. A retainer is basically proof that braces alone don’t really solve the problem.

We're optimistic about nudging ourselves to make long-term changes but agnostic and pessimistic about changing day-to-day ones.

Think...