If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tells us what to do, and a compass that perpetually stuck on north is worthless.

Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.