intentional, accepting and non-judgmental focus of your attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment
Science journalist Ridley believes there is a reason to be optimistic about the human race and he defies the unprecedented economic pessimism he observes. The book is about the rapid and continuous change that human society experiences, unlike any other…
Why having too little means so much. By scarcity, we mean having less than you feel you need. It forms a common chord across so many of society’s problems. The science of scarcity is not new. It is called Economics—which…
We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term…
The law of life is the law of belief. Belief can be summed up briefly as a thought in your mind. The master secret of the ages is the marvellous, miracle-working power found in my own subconscious mind. This is,…
You can’t go around blaming other people for all the bits of your life that aren’t how you like them to be. I am not being unsympathetic. I am just saying that’s how it is. No one else—but you—can make…
Sometimes, improving oneself is not so difficult as there are so many ways in which one can improve. A good option is to mirror the behavior of successful people and one yardstick to measure success is to look at how rich and wealthy…
Numerous studies have shown that money makes happy up to an inflection point of between 40,000 to 70,000 USD per year. I guess that is quite obvious since with that amount of money one’s basic needs can be met (depending on where…
We tend to associate more importance to recent events than we do to less recent ones. The more vivid our memory of something which occurred in the past is, the more “available” that event will be in our mind and the more…
No, I am not referring to that 1998 action movie with Tia Carrere. More to situations where you spend a month researching the best flat screen TV, then invested twice as much money in a penny stock based solely on a hot…
This is clinging to a fact or figure that should have no bearing on your decision. Often, we use an initial value or first piece of informationa as a “starting point” in decision making. Even if the initial value was…