In science, you move closer to the truth by seeking evidence to the contrary. Perhaps the same method should inform your opinions as well.

What you see, recall, and feel emotionally is 100 percent created by chemical reactions in your braincase, and that means those things are susceptible to influence, editing, redacting, and all sorts of other ingredients that get added to consciousness when you construct reality out of inputs both external and internal.

One of the greatest discoveries in recent years was to find that mirror neurons fire also when you do things. It is as if part of your brain is observing yourself as an outsider. You are a story you tell yourself.

Failing often is the only way to ever get the things you want out of life.

Belief is a pretty fragile thing, which is probably why most people guard it so carefully.

It is not a fallacy to trust the consensus of thousands of researchers on how to interpret the evidence provided by decades of studies.

Once people started coming up with ways to maintain larger groups, like armies, cities, and nations, humans started subdividing those groups. Dunbar’s number explains why big groups are made of smaller, more manageable groups like companies, platoons, and squads – or branches, divisions, departments, and committees. No human institution can efficiently function above 150 members without hierarchies, ranks, roles, and divisions.

Your effort is better spent outsmarting yourself than making empty promises through plugging dates into a calendar or setting deadlines for push-ups.

The flow of consciousness is one thing; the recollection of its course is another, yet you usually see them as the same. This is one of the oldest concepts in psychology and philosophy – phenomenology.

You are as deluded as the rest of us, but that’s OK, it keeps you sane.