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Procrastination, Motivation and Doing Hard Things - brains, science and Dopamine

Procrastination, Motivation and Doing Hard Things - brains, science and Dopamine

Emotions, psychology and self-help

Emotions, psychology and self-help

Psychology, motivation and procrastination

Exercise, training - psychology, motivation and mental toughness

Second Brain - creating a note-taking stystem to remember everything - tools, resources

Second Brain - creating a note-taking stystem to remember everything - tools, resources

Book review: The Psychology of Money

Book review: The Psychology of Money

Focus - flow, and getting into the zone

Focus - flow, and getting into the zone

Caffeine - health, biology effects of coffee and caffeinated beverages

Caffeine - health, biology effects of coffee and caffeinated beverages

Trust yourself, think independently, avoid following / conforming - Self-Improvement

Trust yourself, think independently, avoid following / conforming - Self-Improvement

ADHD, attention deficit disorder - Parenting and teenagers

ADHD, attention deficit disorder - Parenting and teenagers

Alcohol and Health issues

Alcohol and Health issues

Dopamine

Dopamine - According to Wikipedia: "Dopamine is a neuromodulatory molecule that plays several imp...

Sleep - how to stop insomnia: guides for better sleep

Sleep - how to stop insomnia: guides for better sleep

Book review: Atomic Habits, by James Clear

Book review: Atomic Habits, by James Clear

The case for Optimism (vs. Pessimism)

The case for Optimism (vs. Pessimism)

Personal finances, and the Psychology of Money

Personal finances, and the Psychology of Money

Exercise, training - psychology, motivation and mental toughness

Exercise, training - psychology, motivation and mental toughness

Book review: Thinking Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman

Book review: Thinking Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman

Resources within this category

Article

Nootropics; Study drugs make healthy people worse at problem-solving, not better

Hard-working, but incompetent. Users try harder, but are less competent | Science & technology. Officially, the stimulant drugs are used to tre... (2023)


Article

An End To Doomerism - 5 Reasons for Technological Optimism

Or why I’m coming out as an impatient optimist. (2022)


Article

I Tried These 8 Sleep Tricks, Here’s What Worked (And What Didn’t) | Awaken

by Victoria Smith: The tips that finally led me to a better night’s rest… Sleep is such a double-edged sword. A solid night of shut-eye makes you f... (2020)


Article

The Thinner Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear

A summary of the best ideas from Atomic Habits by James Clear (2022)


Article

Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform - Farnam Street

Second-order thinking is a mental model that smart people like Warren Buffett & Howard Marks use to avoid problems. Read this article to learn how ... (2016)


Article

“Find and Follow” Your Passion and Debunking Other Self-Help Myths | by Brad Stulberg

A few years ago, when I began to focus more on entrepreneurial pursuits, my mom, a former writer herself, gifted me a little book titled Passion: E... (2019)


Article

Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors - Alexey Guzey

See discussion of this essay on the forum, Hacker News (a), Marginal Revolution (a), Andrew Gelman’s blog 1 (a), 2 (a), 3 (a), 4 (a), /r/slatestar... (2021)


Article

Depression is complicated – this is how our understanding of the condition has evolved over time - Our World in Data

Depression is the most common mental health condition. What do we know about its symptoms, severity and how these are measured? (2021)


Article

Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack - BBC

The World Health Organization says the trend may worsen due to the coronavirus pandemic. (2021)


Article

Investing in Headway - Andreessen Horowitz

While we’ve long known that access to mental healthcare pales in comparison to physical healthcare coverage, the COVID-19 pandemic has further high... (2021)


Article

Big Goals Can Backfire. Olympians Show Us What to Focus on Instead. | by Brad Stulberg

The Problem With Goals You wouldn’t know it from browsing the self-help aisle of your local bookstore, but scientists are beginning to question ... (2017)


Article

11 Simple Ways to Improve Your Memory | Mental Floss

Whether you want to be a Jeopardy! champion or just need to remember where you parked your car, here are 11 things you can do right now. (2016)


Article

Bartleby - You’ll often walk alone | Business | The Economist

Loneliness is a widespread problem with complex roots (2021)


Article

Take a Walk, Sure, but Don’t Call It a Break - HBR

Your best, most creative breakthroughs don’t happen at your desk. (2014)


Article

Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk

Breaking up your day by going outside can boost your mood, brainpower, and creativity. In his New Yorker article, “Why Walking Helps Us Think,”... (2021)


Article

Alzheimer’s Treatments Showing Early Promise

A small study has found that the experimental drug donanemab may slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer's patients. It joins others that show promise. (2021)


Article

Scientists say your “mind" isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body

"Your thoughts, feelings, memories, attention, what you experience in this subjective world is part of mind.” (2021)


Article

People with creative personalities really do see the world differently

How we see the world depends on certain aspects of our personality. As Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire explain in their book Wired to C... (2020)


Article

Entrepreneurship and Loneliness

It’s lonely at the top. It’s even lonelier to be an entrepreneur. But you don’t have to go through this struggle alone. Reid Hoffman on why it’s so... (2020)


Article

The Two Kinds of Moderate - Paul Graham essay

December 2019 There are two distinct ways to be politically moderate: on purpose and by accident. Intentional moderates are trimmers, deliberate... (2020)


Article

One in five covid-19 patients are diagnosed with a mental illness within three months

The news: There have been increasing numbers of anecdotal reports of a link between surviving covid-19 and developing mental health problems in rec... (2020)


Article

How to Think for Yourself - Paul Graham essay

November 2020 There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, fo... (2020)


Article

One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days - study | Reuters

Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20% ... (2020)


Article

This Is How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine | Science

Regular ingestion of the drug alters your brain's chemical makeup, leading to fatigue, headaches and nausea if you try to quit (2020)


Article

‘Amazing, Isn’t It?’ Long-Sought Blood Test for Alzheimer’s in Reach - The New York Times

Scientists say such tests could be available in a few years, speeding research for treatments and providing a diagnosis for dementia patients who w... (2020)


Article

The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic

The minute we make any decision—I think COVID-19 is serious; no, I’m sure it is a hoax—we begin to justify the wisdom of our choice and find reason... (2020)


Article

How to remember anything using the memory palace technique

Four-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis and psychological scientist Julia Shaw explain how to use the memory palace technique to boost your mem... (2020)


Article

How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner

In this post, I describe the phenomenon of the so-called expert beginner -- someone with mediocre skill who thinks he's an expert. I recently po... (2020)


Article

What’s at the front of the line?

Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect A study of behavior at breakfast buffets showed that the first item in the buffet was taken b... (2020)


Article

Why Walking Helps Us Think

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing. (2020)


Video

How to Build Willpower | David Goggins & Dr. Andrew Huberman

David Goggins and Dr. Andrew Huberman discuss the neuroscience of willpower and how pushing through challenges and doing what you don't want to do ... (2024)


Video

The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth

Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Anil Seth looks at the neuroscience of consciousness and how our biology gives rise to the un... (2023)


Video

TED: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth

TED: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth (2023)


Video

Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses psychedelic assisted therapy: its history, its potential, and what it has to do with A$AP Rocky’s relationship to rainbows. C... (2023)


Video

How I Tricked My Brain To Like Doing Hard Things (dopamine detox)

You probably don't have a problem playing video games or browsing social media on your phone. In fact I have no doubt you could sit in front of a s... (2023)


Video

How to enter ‘flow state’ on command | Steven Kotler for Big Think

Peak performance mind hack explained in 7 minutes.► The Neurochemistry of Flow... (2023)


Video

Measuring Happiness - The riddle of experience vs. memory | TED Talk - Daniel Kahneman

Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experi... (2022)


Video

Nietzsche - Follow No One, Trust Yourself

Nietzsche - Follow No One, Trust Yourself (2022)


Video

THINKING FAST AND SLOW - SUMMARY (BY DANIEL KAHNEMAN)

THINKING FAST AND SLOW - SUMMARY (BY DANIEL KAHNEMAN) (2022)


Video

Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Talks at Google

@Google Talks is proud to welcome hero of psychology, Daniel Kahneman.Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his se... (2022)


Video

What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's | Lisa Genova - TED

Alzheimer's doesn't have to be your brain's destiny, says neuroscientist and author of "Still Alice," Lisa Genova. She shares the latest science in... (2022)


Video

The paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz - TED

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has mad... (2022)


Video

Critical Reasoning - Karl Popper, Science, & Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy #8

The early 1900s was an amazing time for Western science, as Albert Einstein was developing his theories of relativity and psychology was born, as S... (2022)


Video

12 Cognitive Biases Explained - How to Think Better and More Logically Removing Bias

We are going to be explaining 12 cognitive biases in this video and presenting them in a format that you can easily understand to help you make bet... (2021)


Video

Sleep is your superpower | TED - Matt Walker

Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more.Sleep is your li... (2021)


Video

New Rule: Your Phone is Turning You into an Asshole | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Apple should admit that the problem with their phones isn’t just what people might store on them, i... (2021)


Video

The Dunning-Kruger Effect - Cognitive Bias - Why Incompetent People Think They Are Competent

After Skool Special thank you to Trace Dominguez for all his help on this video. Please go check out his channel for some neat science videos! ... (2020)


Video

Is marijuana bad for your brain? - TED ED - Anees Bahji

Explore how marijuana’s two main active compounds, THC and CBD, affect your brain and body, and what risk factors to watch out for. -- In 1970, mar... (2019)


Video

How To Simplify Your Life - (video) School of Life

What many of us long for more than anything else is a simpler life; we feel overwhelmed by our responsibilities, schedules, commitments and obligat... (2019)


Video

3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview - TED talk - J. Marshall Shepherd

TED Published on Jan 2, 2019 What shapes our perceptions (and misperceptions) about science? In an eye-opening talk, meteorologist J. Marshall Sh... (2019)


Video

Hershey has a plan to keep impulse shopping alive - CNN

Hershey knows how to get you to make impulse purchases, if you're shopping at a store. But as people shift to online shopping, Hershey is trying to... (2018)


Video

TED - The world needs all kinds of minds | Temple Grandin

Autism activist Temple Grandin talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problem... (2018)


Video

Game Theory Session 2: The Hofstadter Offer

2nd of a 15 part series introducing the social dynamics of game theory found in the book Moral Calculations: Game Theory, Logic and Human Frailty. ... (2018)


Video

Game Theory Session 1: The Dollar Auction, Concorde Fallacy & MacBeth Effect

1st of a 15 part series introducing the social dynamics of game theory found in the book Moral Calculations: Game Theory, Logic and Human Frailty. ... (2018)


Video

The Prisoner's Dilemma

The prisoners dilemma is a hypothetical game set up showing a situation where people won't want to work together even when it's beneficial to do so... (2018)


Video

Game Theory: The Science of Decision-Making

With up to ten years in prison at stake, will Wanda rat Fred out? Game theory is looking at human interactions through the lens of mathematics. Hos... (2018)


Video

5 LIFE HACKS That Will MOTIVATE You To Do ANYTHING (#1. Chunking)

This is Lesson #9 of the Tamed Course. In this video we're going to learn about 5 of the most powerful psychological factors that effect our levels... (2018)


Video

The Distracted Mind -- book review by Adam Gazzaley and Larry D. Rosen

The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World By Adam Gazzaley and Larry D. Rosen Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with... (2018)


Video

Faces of Millennial - a Podcast (preview on Vimeo)

This is a podcast where we root for each other. Intimate unscripted interviews with millennials from around the world sharing one common experienc... (2018)


Video

How free games are designed to make money - Vox

Vox Published on Jul 21, 2016 "Freemium" games can end up gaming gamers. (2018)


Podcast

The Secret to a Long Life - Radiolab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Radiolab on Spotify. Producer Sindhu Gnanasambandan wants to know how she can live the longest feeling life possible. T... (2023)


Podcast

How Psilocybin Can Rewire Our Brain, Its Therapeutic Benefits & Its Risks - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss what psilocybin is (chemically) and how it works at the cellular an... (2023)


Podcast

Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I explain how dopamine dynamics — meaning changes and interactions between ou... (2023)


Podcast

#648: James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Building (and Breaking) Habits - The Tim Ferriss Show

James Clear (@JamesClear) is a writer and speaker focused on habits and continuous improvement. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselle... (2023)


Podcast

Using Caffeine to Optimize Mental & Physical Performance | Episode 101 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I explain how to use caffeine to enhance mental and physical health and perfo... (2022)


Podcast

ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus | Episode 37 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder): what it is, the co... (2022)


Podcast

Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction | Episode 39 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. This episode serves as a sort of “Dopamine Masterclass”. I discuss the immensely powerful chem... (2022)


Podcast

Time Perception & Entrainment by Dopamine, Serotonin & Hormones | Episode 46 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss how our brain and body track time and the role that neurochemicals,... (2022)


Podcast

Focus Toolkit: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration | Episode 88 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I provide a list of behavioral, nutritional, and supplement-based tools you c... (2022)


Podcast

#139 Laurie Santos: The Pursuit of Happiness - The Knowledge Project | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Knowledge Project on Spotify. Can you accurately identify what aspects of life make you happy? Would you even know ... (2022)


Podcast

#68 Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice - The Knowledge Project | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Knowledge Project on Spotify. Psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman shines a light on the biases that cri... (2022)


Podcast

#137 Justin Su'a: Peak Mental Performance - The Knowledge Project | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Knowledge Project on Spotify. Justin Su'a calls on more than a decade of working with the world’s top athletes to d... (2022)


Podcast

#120 Chris Bosh: Hunger and Greatness - The Knowledge Project | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Knowledge Project on Spotify. Two-time NBA champion and 2021 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Chris Bosh goes in-de... (2022)


Podcast

#109 Angela Duckworth: Grit and Human Behavior - The Knowledge Project

Listen to this episode from The Knowledge Project on Spotify. Angela Duckworth is the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology at the Univ... (2021)


Podcast

The Dunning Kruger Hijack (and Other Criminally Stupid Acts) - Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford on Spotify. The hijackers of flight 961 wanted its pilot to fly them to Australia - a... (2021)


Podcast

#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery - The Knowledge Project | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Knowledge Project on Spotify. Seth Godin is the author of 20 bestselling books, founder of altMBA, the Akimbo podca... (2021)


Podcast

A Safer Psychedelic: non-hallucinogenic derivatives of psychedelics - a16z

On Bio Eats World, we discuss of new research creating safer, non-hallucinogenic derivatives of psychedelics for the treatment of depression and ad... (2021)


Podcast

Episode 2: The Unhappy Millionaire — The Happiness Lab

Winning the lottery can ruin your life, while contracting an incurable disease can be 'a gift'. (2019)


Podcast

Episode 1: You Can Change — The Happiness Lab

There are things you can do today to make yourself happier. There are things you can do today to make yourself happier. Your life circumstances ... (2019)


Podcast

The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief' - NPR

Journalist Stephen Kinzer reveals how CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxin... (2019)


Podcast

Sleep Deprived? Try These Strategies To Catch Up : NPR

Nappuccinos To Weekend Z's: Strategize To Catch Up On Lost Sleep Sleeping in on the weekend or taking a brief nap can help you recover from a si... (2019)


Podcast

How AI is Augmenting Therapy - WSJ podcast The Future of Everything

Millions of people suffering from mental health issues are left untreated and undiagnosed. In this episode, we meet the psychologists and scientist... (2018)


Podcast

Making Choices That Could Change Our Lives : NPR

How long did you spend thinking about the last big decision you made? There's a better way, according to Steven Johnson. His newest book is called ... (2018)


Podcast

The Surprising Impact That Music Can Have On Little Kids — And Their Parents : NPR

It doesn't just keep them entertained. New research highlights an unexpected positive impact — and also shows that when a parent sings to a child, ... (2018)


Podcast

The Magic of Mindfulness: Complain Less, Appreciate More, and Live a Better Life | Tim Ferriss

This is another special (and short) episode of The Tim Ferriss Show.  In this episode, I share my personal experiences, apps, tools, and best pract... (2015)


Book

Revenge of the Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lesson... (2025)


Book

Getting to Yes

Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and uses objective criteria to help two partie... (2023)


Book

Being You - by Anil Seth

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of 2021—Bloomberg Businessweek; A Best Science Book of 2021—The Guardian; A Best Science Book of 2021—Financia... (2023)


Book

Dopamine Nation

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant… riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick As... (2022)


Book

Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour o... (2022)


Book

Ideas: a history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud

Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,... (2021)


Book

The Daily Stoic

From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Stre... (2021)


Book

Ikigai

*Los Angeles Times bestseller* “If hygge is the art of doing nothing, ikigai is the art of doing something—and doing it with supreme focus and joy.... (2021)


Book

Atomic Habits

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 2 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven ... (2021)


Book

Stumbling on Happiness - by Daniel Todd Gilbert

Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink? • Why will sighted people pay more to av... (2019)


Book

Man's Search for Meaning - book by Viktor E. Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning has 231,979 ratings and 12,175 reviews. Frank said: After I read this book, which I finished many, many years ago, I had b... (2018)


Book

Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath

Strengths Finder 2.0 has 37,046 ratings and 1,795 reviews. Jean said: Starts with a cool idea: instead of spending time trying to get better at thi... (2018)


Book

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates "A terrific book...[Pinker] recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health... (2018)


Book

Dying for a Paycheck | Stanford Graduate School of Business

In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job st... (2018)


Website

Ten Percent Happier: Mindfulness Meditation Courses

New to meditation? Get fidgety just thinking about it? Our expert teachers will walk you through the basics, one breath at a time. (2020)


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