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Short of time? Read the key takeaways. 🔄 A lot of your actions are habitual. Studies suggest that perhaps as much as two-thirds of actions are performed out of habit. Because so much of daily behavior runs on autopilot, forming positive habits is one of the highest-leverage ways to improve your life and move toward your goals. 🎯 Choose a habit you’re genuinely motivated to build or replace. In our research, we found that feeling highly motivated when beginning habit formati

Short of time? Read the key takeaways. ♻️ Many self-help techniques are recycled or repackaged versions of older ideas. Mindfulness, for instance, traces back at least 2,500 years and now appears across multiple modern therapies under different names like 'defusion,' 'decentering,' and 'acceptance.' Even still, some of these technique can be extremely useful! 🔬 Popular techniques often lack strong scientific backing. Cold exposure, despite its hype, showed mixed results in a

Short of time? Read the key takeaways. 👥 Averaging group judgments often beats individual ones. There are mathematical reasons why asking a crowd and averaging their answers tends to produce more accurate results than relying on a single person's judgment, even when that person is an expert. 🎯 Crowds work best for two question types. They excel at (1) factual questions with definitive answers and (2) estimating what a target population will think or feel. ⚠️ Systematic bi