By the time young people hear an inspiring commencement speech it’s too late—they are already pretty far down the wrong road.  The critical decision on what to major in has set them on a course with long-term consequences that won’t be apparent until long after they’ve graduated. 
 A career choice is immensely difficult; it’s one of [...]

Are you stuck in a career that doesn’t fit you, yet have found a way to be happy about it?  Synthetic happiness is a state of mind we create for ourselves when we view our situation as permanent and irreversible.  Our brains are designed to re-frame a “no choice” situation in a positive light, for [...]

When it comes to making decisions, there are thinkers doing it one way, feelers another.  Thinkers are like economists, they use logic to calculate the probability of their happiness.  Feelers go with their gut hunches, and as it turns out, so do most thinkers.
About 200,000 years ago, an evolutionary advancement was added to our “primitive” [...]