Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.

Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.