Category: Motivation

There’s a difference between being capable of something and believing you’re capable of it. The gap between those two things sounds small, but psychologist Albert Bandura spent decades showing it’s…

Motivation is one of the most studied — and most misunderstood — subjects in psychology. Decades of research have tried to isolate what actually separates people who sustain high achievement…

A highlight reel is, by definition, made of highlights. That’s not a flaw in the format — it’s the whole point of it. But it creates a strange side effect:…

Most career advice comes in paragraphs. This one came in four words, repeated so often over the years that they stopped sounding like advice and started sounding like instinct: “Do…