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The first rule of the CEO psychological meltdown is don’t talk about the psychological meltdown.

Although it’s nearly impossible to get high-quality advice on the tough decisions that you make, it is extremely useful from a psychological perspective to talk to people who have been through similarly challenging decisions.

Many people associate procrastination with laziness. But psychologists find that procrastination is not a time management problem – it’s an emotion management problem.

Psychologists find that achieving a sense of progress doesn’t require huge gains. Fuel can come from small wins.

…academic research… shows that staying married usually leads to better physical and psychological health for both spouses…

…positive psychology finds that people who take a grateful attitude toward life, counting their blessings rather than inventorying their complaints, tend to be healthier, happier, and more successful than others.

Both contemporary psychological research and age-old common sense suggest that a feeling of purpose improves a person’s experience of life.

A broad swath of psychological and economic research has shown that people will pay different amounts for the same item depending on who is providing it.

When you’re trying to level up, it’s easy to psych yourself out by focusing on everything you don’t know. But you’ve go to have faith in your ability to figure it out.

A healthy psychological immune system strikes a balance that allows us to feel good enough to cope with our situation but bad enough to do something about it.