We’ve all been there before. We set a goal for ourselves, whether it’s to save money, lose weight, or quit smoking; but no matter how badly we want to achieve that goal, we just can’t seem to stick to it. That’s because we humans are...
You have been forgetting about it for the last two weeks. And it is bugging you. So now you remembered, and you don’t want to forget again. So you email yourself. You send a reminder from today’s You, to Future You. Tomorrow, you remember yet another...
Most of us go through our lives paying attention to the things that we are not particularly good at. Report cards in school tell us what we have to improve on, or “put in more effort”, the scale tells us how badly out of shape we are, and later in life, on...