How Culture Shapes the Stories We Tell About Our Emotions
To capture human emotion in all its richness, we have to broaden where and how we study it.
Psychology
Why Randomness Doesn’t Feel Random
Most of us tend to think of randomness as being “well spaced.” Genuinely random distributions seem to contradict our inherent ideas of what randomness should look like.
A Better Way to Ask for Advice
Don’t ask to pick someone’s brain. You’ll get better results from inviting them to retrace their route instead.
How the Possibility Grid Can Help You Evaluate Evidence Better
The possibility grid is a universal tool to draw attention to what is absent. It alerts you to think about rates of success rather than stories of successes.
Tap into the Wisdom of Your ‘Inner Crowd’
How taking the perspective of a friend you disagree with could help you make better estimates.
The Time Traveling Mistake We Make When We Procrastinate
In thinking about the future in a merely surface level way, we end up traveling to a different future than the one we meant to go to.