1: “On a regular basis I catch myself saying, ‘I wish there were ten more hours in a day,'”  John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.

Time is a problem. A limitation. A challenge.

“It doesn’t matter if we’re the CEO of a multinational corporation or a retired school bus driver, John Mark notes, “if we’re single or raising a family of seven, if we live … continue reading

1:  Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz get asked many questions.

Bob and Marc are the Director and Associate Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the world’s longest scientific study of happiness.

People often approach them with worried looks and ask: “If I’m shy and have trouble making friends, is the good life out of reach?”

Or, “If I had a bad childhood, am I just totally screwed?”… continue reading

1: “This is Impossible,” we think.

We can feel the frustration building inside us. “The hard work. The long hours. The voice in our heads telling us to quit,” writes Steven Kotler in The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer.

If we want to be at our best, we must pay attention to our inner monologue.

“At the elite level,” notes high-performance psychologist Michael Gervais, “talent and ability … continue reading