Planning Your Life Based on Your Ideal Ordinary Week
By Spencer Greenberg Cross-posted at SpencerGreenberg.com When people consider how they want their lives to be, they often think in...
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- May 31, 2015
- 2 min
Convincing Your Future Self
By Spencer Greenberg (Cross-posted at SpencerGreenberg.com) [PICTURE] You have control over yourself for the next eight seconds. Maybe...
- May 27, 2015
- 1 min
Could you start a successful company? Take our brand new startup test!
Take our newly-launched startup test now to find out: How suited your personality and skills are for founding a startup company How much...
- May 20, 2015
- 1 min
What's the most enlightening way to present data?
The way we look at data informs, and often even determines, the conclusions we draw from it. So how can we make sure we are presenting it...
- May 11, 2015
- 5 min
Predicting Using the Past
By Spencer Greenberg (Cross-posted at SpencerGreenberg.com) When we try to predict how long a task will take, we are in danger of falling...
- May 5, 2015
- 1 min
You are a work in progress - but you're changing more than you think
Watch Harvard psychologist and happiness expert Dan Gilbert explain why the you of the present often makes choices that the future you...
- Apr 20, 2015
- 4 min
Finding Our False Beliefs
By Spencer Greenberg (Cross-posted at SpencerGreenberg.com) By definition, we believe that each of our beliefs is true. And yet,...
- Apr 18, 2015
- 1 min
Use our new program to lift your mood in 5 minutes!
Are you ready to feel happier in the next 5 minutes? Quickly lift your spirits with our brand new mood booster program. We used the...
- Apr 13, 2015
- 1 min
Learn why Star Trek's Mr. Spock is not very rational
Watch Julia Galef, president and cofounder of the Center for Applied Rationality, dismantle the myth that rationality and emotion are...
- Apr 7, 2015
- 13 min
How rational do people think they are, and do they care one way or another?
[PICTURE] How rational do you think you are? How important do you think rationality is? ClearerThinking.org ran a survey on 400 people...
- Mar 24, 2015
- 1 min
Discover the secret beauty of mistakes
What can you learn from billionaire Ray Dalio? Writer Jess Whittlestone explains the systematic way to benefit from your errors in an...
- Mar 11, 2015
- 1 min
Try our new program, Savor Your Life, to learn how to create lasting well-being!
Our newest program, Savor Your Life, will teach you the skill of savoring. Why? Positive psychology research tells us that one of the...
- Mar 9, 2015
- 6 min
Why We Overvalue What We No Longer Have: The Psychology of Loss
By Spencer Greenberg SpencerGreenberg.com(Cross-posted at ) We over value the things we have, overreact when we can’t have something...
- Mar 2, 2015
- 2 min
Use this method to anticipate the possible effects of your decisions
The Futures Wheel, conceived and designed by Future Studies pioneer Jerome Glenn in 1972, is a method of mapping the direct and indirect...
- Feb 23, 2015
- 1 min
The Best Books On Decision Making And Rationality
Want to understand why decision making is often flawed, and how to do better? Here's a selection of some of our favorite books to help...
- Feb 16, 2015
- 11 min
Making Difficult Decisions
By Spencer Greenberg (Cross-posted at SpencerGreenberg.com) Suppose that you have to make a decision that will significantly alter the...
- Feb 9, 2015
- 1 min
54 ways people can be wrong, beautifully illustrated.
We love this infographic from David McCandless and team at Information is Beautiful! It can help you remember logical and rhetorical...
- Feb 2, 2015
- 5 min
How rationality can make your life more awesome
By Julia Galef (Cross-posted at Measure of Doubt) Sheer intellectual curiosity was what first drew me to rationality (by which I mean,...
- Jan 27, 2015
- 1 min
Make your beliefs more accurate with our new tool!
Our new Belief Challenger tool is designed to help you form truer views and develop a more accurate understanding of the world. Why?...
- Jan 20, 2015
- 2 min
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By being part of this free program, you'll be able to try our decision making programs long before they are released to the public, and...
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