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We make decisions today that will eventually shape our tomorrow.  In this video, Jared Diamond talks about his book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, an exhaustive study of the kinds of decisions that lead to a collapse of a society (e.g., Easter Island).   
Through his life’s work in evolutionary biology, accompanied [...]

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” [...]