

All Tools and Mini-Courses
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Your Quarterly Life Review
Most of us can benefit from regularly reflecting on our lives, but few people make the time to do so. This tool is designed to make that easier.
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20

Uncover Your Guiding Principles
Build a list of your personal principles, to keep them top of mind and make better decisions, faster.
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10

Program Yourself to Improve Your life
Train yourself to implement positive actions in your day-to-day life with simple "if-then" rules
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12

Reframing Negative Emotions
Learn how to reframe the way you experience upsetting situations, how to find alternatives to self-criticism, and how to learn what you've used in past experiences to move forward
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15

Rhetorical Fallacies
Bad arguments are all around us. Train yourself to instantly detect common reasoning errors that often go unnoticed.
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25

Seeking Outside Criticism
Make a plan to ask for specific, honest criticism on an aspect of yourself that you'd like to improve
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6

Surpass Self-Limiting Beliefs
False or exaggerated beliefs about ourselves can hold us back and harm our relationships. Learn to overcome them with three simple strategies!
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30

The Belief Challenger
Our beliefs determine our behaviors and how we interact with others. Use this program to refine your beliefs and form more accurate views.
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11

The Confrontation Aid
Learn the skills to have an effective confrontation using techniques recommended by experts in conflict resolution
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15

The Entrepreneur Test
Take our test to get a customized report on your strengths and weaknesses as a potential startup founder. Learn if you have the traits and skills you need to succeed!
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30

The Intrinsic Values Test
Find out what you value most in the world, and compare those values to others', with this fun, comprehensive quiz
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20

The Question of Evidence
There is more to interpreting evidence than you might think. Learn to improve your predictions by understanding evidence on a deeper level using Bayes' rule.
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35

The Sunk Cost Fallacy
When we have invested heavily in a project, it can be difficult to evaluate it objectively. Learn about why this happens and how to combat it.
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50

Value Of Your Time Calculator
Get a custome report that will help you make decisions based on the value of your time, like whether to take on extra part-time work or hire your own help.
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10

What Makes an Effective Goal?
Powered by many of the most significant discoveries from the science of motivation and built by a world expert, this tool teaches you how to set the most effective goals.
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30

When Are You Overconfident?
This quick tool is designed to give you a clearer sense of how you rate your own reasoning chops - and how your confidence compares to others.
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15

Your Greatest Sources of Pleasure
Discover what brings you the most joy and personal life satisfaction and review how to experience them more often
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15

Replace Unhelpful Coping Strategies
Learn about which coping behaviors harm more than they help, and make a plan for replacing your own unhelpful coping mechanisms with a strategy that will benefit you in the long-term!
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15

40 Winks: Better Sleep Made Easy
What can you do to achieve the optimal sleep experience? This tool creates a set of personalized recommendations based on your specific situation
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10

Become A Great Listener
This tool teaches the skill of Active Listening, a strategy commonly used by therapists, helpline volunteers, and hostage negotiators to help people feel supported and understood
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15

Building Happiness Habits
Pair these tried and tested happiness techniques with simple activity triggers to rapidly improve your day-to-day experience
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15

Can You Detect Weak Arguments?
Find out how well you can spot misleading rhetoric and recognize your own bias using real-world examples
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12

Change Behavior for the Better
Based on the "Ten Conditions for Change" framework, this tool walks you through all the steps required for successfully changing your behavior for the better
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20

Credentialist Test
Do you care about formal qualifications? Take this mini-test to find out where you fall on the Credentialist to Non-Credentialist spectrum.
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4

Defining Emotions
This tool helps you reflect on the meaning of the words we use to describe emotions and the sensations that accompany them, with the aim of helping you better articulate how you feel
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20

Enhancing Creativity
This module teaches simple techniques to help you form new creative habits and applications
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20

Fail-Safing Your Plans
In this mini-course, you'll learn how to use a technique called Prospective Hindsight to think about your future plans with more depth and clarity
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30

Get Going: Overcome Procrastination
Tips for being more productive for those who frequently procrastinate on personal or professional projects
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20

How Airtight Are Your Estimates?
Are your guesses truly independent? Or is it possible that you're being manipulated by irrelevant information without your knowledge?
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12

Improve Your Frequency Predictions
Test your ability to estimate the frequency of events and compare your scores to other users with this quick quiz
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15

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
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25

Leaving Your Mark on the World
Learn to make the most of your charitable contributions with this detailed and informative guide.
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20

Lifetime Aspirations
Want to make a plan for accompanying your biggest dreams? Use this tool to become happier and to more easily achieve your long-term goals.
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20

Mental Traps
Scientists have discovered a slew of systematic errors in human thought. Learn about a few of the mind's mistakes in this brief introduction.
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10

Overconfidence Analyzer
Discover how accurate your confidence levels are likely to be for any skill.
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18

World's Biggest Problems Quiz
Test your knowledge of some of the world's most pressing problems: global health, animal welfare, and existential risks to humanity.
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15

Political Bias Test
Learn to spot and overcome your political biases and test your policy knowledge with this fun, free quiz
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15

Question Your Identity
Why do you believe what you do? Learn how you see yourself influences the beliefs that you choose to hold
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20

Resolve Harmful Situations
Facing a challenging or harmful situation? This tool will help you think through your options, using a simple decision-making framework.
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10

Savor Your Life
Learn a skill recommended by positive pyschology to increase satisfaction and deepen your happiness. Lift your spirits and create lasting positive feelings!
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15

Skeptical Seekers
Take this mini-test to find out whether you have the two personality traits that are essential for discovering true things about the world
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4

Tactics for Happier Living
Take this test to get a personalized set of activities that can support you in adding fulfillment and meaning to your life.
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12

The Common Misconceptions Test
Separate fact from B.S. in this fun quiz that asks you to identify the misconceptions among 30 common beliefs.
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15

The Decision Advisor
Facing a challenging, complex, or emotionally-charged decision? Try this tool for organizing your thoughts and weighing your options numerically
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15

The Hidden Meaning of Sounds
Learn about how certain sounds can have a particular connotation or meaning by finding out what sound fits your personality best
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10

The Planning Fallacy
Ever notice that projects usually take longer than people predict? Understand the science behind this phenomenon and become a more reliable planner.
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50

The Relationship Review
Examine different aspects of your relationship with a partner, close friend, or family member using an open, non-judgmental approach
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15

Understanding Bayes Theorem
Learn the mathematical rule that governs the way statisticians and scientists handle evidence
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10

What Causes Match Your Values?
Find a charity that matches your altruistic priorities and is highly effective at advancing its chosen mission
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10

What to Know About Suicide
Tips on how to recognize if someone is at risk of suicide and advice on how to speak to them about it from experts in suicide prevention
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20

When To Stop Exploring
How do you make important life decisions when faced with uncertainty? Learn a simple technique that lets you choose between other options or committing to what you know
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20

Your Primal World Beliefs
Discover the beliefs that inform your personal worldview, whether you see the world as more safe than dangerous, more interesting than boring, or more meaningful than empty.
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6

Spark the Mood You Want
Create A Mood Association: learn to generate a mental state of your choice in the situation you want using a quick, reliable technique.
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Achieve Your Goals
Create a personalized, step-by-step plan for your chosen goal and set a regular schedule of reminders so that you can keep track of the milestones that you achieve
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20

Boost Your Productivity
Invest in an effective work style and use our productivity formula to plan your own productivity system that incorporates techniques for optimizing your time, efficiency, and value
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25

Calibrate Your Judgment
This free program contains thousands of question sets to help you become adept at making well-calibrated judgments. It also tracks your progress over time so you can see how you improve!
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30

Career Fulfillment Diagnostic
Using the Japanese concept of Ikigai, "a reason for getting up in the morning", this tool helps you identify which aspects of your career you find fulfilling
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15

Charity Effectiveness
See if you can guess which social interventions had a positive effect, a negative effect, or no effect, based on a short description.
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4

Daily Ritual: A Habit Creation System
This tool builds you a custom habit-formation strategy in three simple steps, so you can change your daily routine for the better
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15

Design Your Own Self-Experiment
Devise informal experiments for improving your everyday experience and personal routines, with a little help from this handy tool.
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10

Explanation Freeze
How do you interpret uncertain events? This mini-course teaches you how to look past your first explanation and get closer to the truth
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30

Gender Continuum Test
Take this fun test to learn about the relationship between gender and personality based on data from more than 15,000 people - and learn about yourself in the process!
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30

Guess Which Experiments Replicate
Can you guess which of these high-profile experiments were legit?
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15

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
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8

Is Your Memory Like A Photograph?
Discover whether you retain a faithful representation of the events you witness with these two, quick memory tests
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20

Learning From Mistakes
Learning from mistakes is challenging. Try our approach and you can rebound from your mistakes and carry on as an even better person.
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25

Life Changing Questions
Answer these open-ended questions (alone or with others) to learn new, important insights about yourself.
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15

Managing Arguments in Relationships
Learn how to navigate arguments effectively and kindly using a situation of your choosing
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20

Mood Boosters
Brighten your disposition fast with scientifically-tested exercises that can improve your mood and and dispel the blues.
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2