In our society and culture there is a fatalistic yet popular idea: you have to be gifted (specific innate gifts) in order to achieve excellence in a certain field. But latest researches deny this awful idea. Why awful? Because it may make you don’t start up at all or quit too early in the field […]
At the first sight the collocation “tough conditions” make us think to bad, pain and suffering. Usually we think the tough situations and events as something bad for us. But let’s take a close look and decide if they are bad.
Let’s take the situation when we want to achieve a goal but encounter a lot […]
It seems that we humans aren’t too good at finding happiness, even if it’s the main reason for why we do anything.
In our pursuit of happiness, we may rely only on our own mind, especially on our imagination and memory, or we can use the current experiences of the others.
Daniel Gilbert in his new book […]