Sublime

This law reveals one of the most simple and effective psychological tricks that you can use to motivate someone to do something, form a habit or perform a desired behaviour. You can use it on yourself or someone else!

The Expert at the Card Table. Written and published pseudonymously in 1902, it contained a large section on card cheating techniques followed by an equally large one on card tricks of the era.

You need not be as avid an X-Men fan to use this method for your own fears. Think of something you’ve been putting off due to self-doubt: taking up a new hobby, or perhaps launching a side hustle. Now, identify an alter ego who would have no trouble with it. Who embodies the qualities you want to have, qualities like confidence, bravery, determinat

Our aim here: some self-knowledge and contentment. This is not the same as complacency, as it requires at least a little work and self-examination. The end result of balancing our desires to sit more comfortably with what is available should be an increase in our sense of satisfaction and therefore our happiness. Keeping our desires simple makes us

I am going to draw on some of my favourite thinking from the last two millennia, most of which will come from a time when philosophers – literally ‘lovers of wisdom’ – were concerned with how we might best live.