The Sims and World of Warcraft provide a blueprint for real-life success

There is great variation in the way people approach structuring their lives, with different approaches to planning, goal setting, and decision making.

• The first approach is to live for today. People in this category prefer what is current to what has already happened o...

"I'm a recovering perfectionist, so I ask what is the goal and what does 'good enough' look like for each task on my list. Then, I rate the importance of the task on a scale from 0 to 10, with 10 being the highest. Now, you have a measure of success and an idea of how to achieve ...

The pursuit of success is a religion because, like other religions, it is a robust system of meaning-making that operates at emotional and cognitive levels, guides our decisions, contains its own morality, and is practi...