Your ambitions to improve your life do not need to be confined by your personality.
‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice
A major new study questions the common wisdom about how we should choose our careers.
Chasing life goals is a recipe for disaster – so try these tiny experiments instead
Whether its our careers, health or relationships, we often set the bar too high and end up feeling disappointed when it doesn’t work out. Try this new way of thinking … and you may just see some real results
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At a crossroads in life? No matter how much you deliberate, one unknowable remains: the person you will be on the other side
A psychologically rich life: Beyond happiness and meaning.
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why
Our career path is how we spend our time, how we support our lifestyles, how we make our impact, and even sometimes how we define our identity. Let’s make sure we’re on the right track.
Your Most Improbable Life
Your life’s goal should be to become the most improbable person you can be.
The Case for Lowering Your Expectations
It may be the key to happiness and sustainable performance
Telescoping Ambition
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. - T.E Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Why ‘Follow Your Passion’ Is the World’s Worst Career Advice
The popular "follow your passion" advice has become an overused and generic phrase. Below is another method that may just do the trick in helping people's careers.
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In 2026, I’m no longer interested in ‘working on myself’
We think of ourselves as full-time projects, but what if doing so much inner work does more harm than good?
A revolution in our sense of self | Nick Chater
Psychologists have tried to plumb the depths of human motivation to make sense of our behaviour. But our inner mental world is a fiction, sustained by constant improvisation
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Is personality so predictably linked to chronological age that unique experiences usually play only a minor role in personality development? Comments and criticism are welcome on the intro draft of a paper proposing and testing this hypothesis. shorturl.at/QPKpw
"There is a contrast between my biological development, confidently realizing its in-built norm, and my fumbling psychological development, realizing partially..one among many apparently possible orders .. Learning what to want is the most radical, the most painful and the most creative art of life"
This, and even more - to get super-rich almost requires *suppressing* the cultivation of a self or interiority. “Our system produces, elevates, and rewards psychopaths.” x.com/uTobian/status/20412132683884…
Levi Stahl
The empty boredom of the super-rich who never had to cultivate a self or interiority is the root cause of so many of our problems.
