Three takeaways: While the placebo effect in medicine has been proven to be a falsity, the strategic use of placebos in life might be an indispensable tool for your own wellbeing. You can apply R[...]
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Three Paths Toward the Meaning of Life
Three takeaways: Psychologists have shown in experiments that having a clear sense of your “true self” or “essence” strongly predicts a feeling of meaning in life than it does a positive[...]
Four Ways to Be Grateful—And Happier
Four takeaways: Gratitude has been shown in study after study to have positive effects on one’s happiness in both the immediate and the long term. However, humans naturally have a “negativity [...]
Eight Ways to Banish Misery
Eight takeaways: Bertrand Russell broke down the root causes of unhappiness into eight categories of common errors humans make. They are: Fashionable pessimism: Presenting an outwardly negative or pe[...]