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Emotions, relationships, habits, and the work of understanding your own mind.
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- Rumination vs. Reflection: How to Tell Them Apart
Rumination and reflection use the same mind in different modes. Research on brooding, pondering, and self-distancing shows what separates them.
- How to Build a Habit (and Break One): Cues, Friction, and the Loop
Why habits stick or slip on cues and friction, not motivation — and how to redesign one habit this week using the cue–routine–reward loop.
- The Planning Fallacy: Why Tasks Take Longer Than Planned
Students predicted 34 days and took 56. What the planning fallacy research shows, and how the outside view produces a more honest estimate.