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037 - Motivation - Daniel Pink
What motivates you to keep going, to reach for your dreams, to persist and endure? Psychology has, over the last 40 years, learned a great deal about…
11 years, 5 months ago
036 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Have you ever been confronted with the fact that you were in over your head, or that you had no idea what you were doing, or that you thought you wer…
11 years, 6 months ago
035 - Inbetweenisode - The Sunk Cost Fallacy
Are you throwing good money after bad? Are you stuck in a job, a relationship, a degree, or some other situation that you know you should abandon but…
11 years, 6 months ago
034 - The Post Hoc Fallacy
Do you believe in magical amulets? Apparently, in 2011, enough people did to allow one company to earn $34 million making and selling them to profess…
11 years, 6 months ago
033 - Belief - Will Storr
Do you think that everything you believe is true? If not, then what are you wrong about? It is a difficult question to answer, and it leads to many o…
11 years, 7 months ago
032 - Ego Depletion
Many see willpower as something you develop like a muscle, something you can strengthen through practice and mental exercise, but the latest research…
11 years, 7 months ago
031 - Extinction Burst
Why do you so often fail at removing bad habits from your life?
You try to diet, to exercise, to stop smoking, to stop staying up until 2 a.m. stuck i…
11 years, 8 months ago
030 - Practice - David Epstein
Is it true that all it takes to be an expert is 10,000 hours of practice? What about professional athletes? Do different people get more out of pract…
11 years, 8 months ago
029 - Labels - Adam Alter
I did something this week that I’m sure many people secretly do every day. I stopped, talked to myself for a moment, and checked to see how much slac…
11 years, 9 months ago
028 - Crowds - Michael Bond
It is a human tendency that’s impossible not to notice during wars and revolutions – and a dangerous one to forget when resting between them.
In psy…
11 years, 9 months ago