Most of these tricks make use of the cognitive biases that are hard-wired into people’s brains—they help us convince people to do things they might not otherwise want to do.

So here’s how to transform a too-long to-do list into a list of only the things that you actually want to do: 1. Highlight all the items on your to-do list that you dread doing. Hold each task list ...

So I know science shows that one of the things that happens with the Three Good Things is you kind of slow down and start savoring things and I really sensed that in the clip. How’d that work for you?

Why do good things happen to bad people? Look carefully. Is that the question you thought it was or have the words been turned around? At first glance you may have thought it said, Why do bad ...

The lure of karmic thinking is that if you do good things, positive outcomes will rain down on you, while the opposite is true for those who don’t uphold the same standard of morals. In other ...

The proposed formula, “Do good, get good – do bad, get bad,” is not a hard fast rule. Actually, in terms of the things of this world, awful things do happen to nice people, whereas it seems ...

The irony is this: Progressives, who believe in using government to do good things, have built a system that renders government incompetent. But now the culture may be shifting again.