...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing al….

It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a lot done - ….

What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about How To….

Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the futu….

Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't ….

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable..

Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a tim….

The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worke….

The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instea….

Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittl….

Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can onl….

True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can..

Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do w….

Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadverten….

The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecu….

Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting..