All our articles on psychology.
Three weeks after starting, Inès was already thinking about quitting: baffling meetings, eleven-hour days, and the certainty that she was a hiring mistake. Here is what changed, and the ideas she put into practice.
Read more →Your biases, mood and character often decide for you. Here is how to know yourself better, through psychology, and take back control of your choices.
Read more →Discover the complete summary of Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman: why emotional quotient outweighs IQ, the 5 components of EQ and how to develop them.
Read more →Discover the complete summary of Influence by Robert Cialdini: the 6 universal principles of persuasion and the defenses to protect yourself from them.
Read more →Discover the complete summary of Mindset by Carol Dweck: why believing your abilities can grow changes your results, and how to cultivate that mindset.
Read more →Discover the complete summary of Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg: observation, feeling, need, request, and how to practice NVC every day.
Read more →Discover the complete summary of Grit by Angela Duckworth: why perseverance predicts success better than talent, and how to grow it every day.
Read more →Discover the complete summary of Outliers: The Story of Success, the essay in which Malcolm Gladwell dismantles the myth of the self-made genius and reveals the hidden mechanics of achievement.
Read more →Discover the complete summary of Quiet by Susan Cain: why our society overrates extroversion and how to turn your quiet temperament into a strength.
Read more →Discover the complete summary of Factfulness by Hans Rosling: why your view of the world is darker than reality, and how to correct it with data.
Read more →Discover the complete summary of Daring Greatly by Brené Brown: why daring to be seen is an act of courage, and how to put down the shield of perfectionism.
Read more →You finish a book and, two weeks later, almost nothing of it remains? That is how memory normally works. Here are 7 research-backed techniques to finally remember what you read.
Read more →Discover emotional intelligence according to Daniel Goleman: its 5 components, why it matters and concrete methods to develop it every day.
Read more →Confirmation bias, anchoring, the Dunning-Kruger effect: discover the main cognitive biases, these thinking traps, and concrete methods to think more clearly.
Read more →Discover the 9 types of intelligence from Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, and learn concrete ways to recognize and develop your own.
Read more →System 1 thinks fast, System 2 thinks slow, and most of our mistakes are born between the two. A complete summary of Daniel Kahneman's masterpiece: the two systems, the major cognitive biases, and what science has confirmed since.
Read more →Our pick of the 10 essential psychology books to decode how we decide, feel and behave, and finally understand human behavior.
Read more →Crediting your successes to luck, fearing you will be found out, overcompensating through work: impostor syndrome mostly strikes competent people. Where it comes from, how to recognize it, and four concrete strategies to move forward despite the doubt.
Read more →Why does Homo sapiens rule the planet? Because it is the only animal that collectively believes in fictions: money, nations, corporations. A complete summary of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari: the three revolutions, the key concepts and the book's critics.
Read more →The less you know, the less you can see what you don't know: that is the Dunning-Kruger effect. What the 1999 study really showed, why the famous Mount Stupid curve is misleading, what recent criticism says, and how to protect yourself from this bias.
Read more →From the Toni Morrison novel that shaped him to the Lincoln biographies he still cites: a tour of the former US president's mental library.
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