The Best of Clearer Thinking in 2024

2024 is almost over, and as usual, we want to highlight for you some of our best work from this year, including new interactive tools, podcast episodes, and articles - we hope you find them valuable! We're also excited to share some exciting projects we're looking forward to in 2025! 

Our Most Popular Interactive Tools 🛠️

In 2024, over 300,000 people completed at least one of our tools - which is an increase of 130% compared to the previous year (2023). We're truly excited to see more and more people around the world using them to hone their thinking, change their habits, and make better decisions!

Here are the three most popular tools to date:

• How Rational Are You, Really? Learn which of 16 reasoning styles you use, your overall level of rationality, and what you can do now to improve your rationality skills.

• The Ultimate Personality Test:  We ran studies comparing the predictive power of the most popular personality tests and have used the insights we gained to develop the Ultimate Personality Test. You can try it now to get a personalized report with your Big Five, Enneagram, and Jungian Type (inspired by MBTI)—the three most popular frameworks—all in one test, plus a breakdown of what our studies tell us about the accuracy of these assessments!

• Learn Your Philosophical Beliefs: Take this quiz to learn what philosophical beliefs you hold and discover whether these beliefs are predicted by your psychological traits.

Meet the Clearer Thinking Paths 🏔️

This year, we also launched something many of our users have been asking for years: a way to keep track of your progress through our over 80 tools! Besides that, the Clearer Thinking Paths also allows you to get personalized recommendations for which of our tools may be most helpful to you.

Launch the Clearer Thinking Paths

Our Most Popular Podcasts 🎙️

In 2024, we launched 52 podcast episodes, representing approximately 3,120 minutes of in-depth conversations about human psychology, philosophy, technology, and more. In total, the Clearer Thinking Podcast was downloaded over 300,000 times. 

Here are the three most popular podcast episodes we’ve launched this year:

• Why are so many people experiencing homelessness in big cities in the U.S., and what can be done to help? (with Kevin Adler)

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Beyond (with David Burns)

• Everyone — including you! — should host more events (with Nick Gray)

To sell the full list of Clearer Thinking Podcast episodes, click here.

Our Most Popular Articles 📝

In 2024, we published 51 blog posts across a wide variety of topics. In total, our Blog reached over 293,000 readers worldwide (including our library of resources and tips to help our readers boost their productivity with AI).

Here are the three most popular blog posts we’ve published this year:

• Remembering Daniel Kahneman: 7 theories that can help you understand how you think

• Does astrology work? We put 152 astrologers to the test

• How collective memories can sometimes be inaccurate: Investigating the Mandela Effect

Our Most Popular Newsletters ✉️

In 2024, we sent 59 newsletters, which were read over 4,100,000 times by approximately 260,000 subscribers. 

Here are the three most popular newsletters we’ve launched this year:

• What people get wrong about happiness

• The missing heritability problem

• Meet the undecided voters in the 2024 US presidential election

Want to recap our newsletter? You can access a full list of the most recent ones by clicking here. 

What's next?

2024 was an exciting year for Clearer Thinking. We conducted new research and significantly increased our content output while still keeping a strong focus on quality. 

We launched our supporter program, through which people who believe in our mission can directly contribute to our projects (and get fun and interesting perks in return). We're also really glad to see Clearer Thinking's impact growing, going from about 120,000 people using our tools in 2023 to over 300,000 in 2024. 

We believe 2025 will be an even bigger year for Clearer Thinking (especially if we can find major funding for some more complex and audacious projects). We plan to keep working diligently to launch new podcasts, newsletters, and interactive tools with the aim of improving your life. 

To do our part in combating the replication crisis, we'll also keep running replications of new psychology studies published in top journals. You can read about our Transparent Replications project (and how you can support the project, if you're interested) by clicking here.

Lastly, we're constantly working to make our supporter program more appealing and valuable for our supporters. Next year, while the vast majority of our content will be free to the general public (as always), we also plan to release some exclusive tools and content for our supporters, and aim to make partnerships with other brands for special discounts for our supporters and more! 

Thanks for sticking with us through 2024. We hope that our content helped you think better, understand yourself more deeply, or made it easier to take action towards your goals. 

If you have suggestions on how we can improve in the coming year, don't hesitate to get in touch and let us know!

Finally, as mentioned at the beginning of this e-mail, we're actively searching for major funding for work that we believe would be highly impactful.

If you believe in our mission to improve people's lives by helping them make better decisions, or our aim to help build a solid foundation for reliable psychological research (free of harmful incentives), please consider supporting us - whether through direct funding or by connecting us with someone who might be interested. Simply reply to this email, and we’d be happy to discuss the possibilities!

Thanks for being one of our readers - we deeply appreciate it!