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7 articles tagged "life"
You Only Live Once - Perhaps That's the Problem.
"YOLO" gets used to justify both life-changing leaps and reckless impulses. Behavioral economics and regret research say they deserve completely different advice.
Never Give Up - Really?
Research on "goal disengagement" found that people who can let go of unreachable goals have better health and well-being than people who refuse to quit.
Everything Happens for a Reason - Does It?
Grief professionals consistently flag "everything happens for a reason" as harmful. The psychology behind why we say it explains who it's really comforting.
"Failure" Who Decided Losing Means You Failed?
Rigorous replications found growth mindset changes beliefs but barely moves outcomes without real environmental support, a much smaller effect than the popular version claims.
"Old" - When Did It Become a Bad Word?
A 23-year Yale study found people with positive views of aging lived 7.5 years longer, more than the effect of not smoking or exercising, according to the American Psychological Association.
"Successful" Who Decided What Success Means?
"Success" originally just meant "an outcome", good or bad. The promise that it will make you happy was added later, and the arrival fallacy explains why it rarely delivers.
The Room I Walked Into For No Reason 4
Post 4: Why memory slows as we age, the real science behind the "doorway effect" and tip-of-the-tongue syndrome, plus memory idioms in English.
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