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New research is uncovering why we eat first with our expectations.
From King Midas to Gordon Gekko, humanity has struggled to grasp greed's true nature.
Can we learn to always look on the bright side of life?
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It can be overwhelming to navigate the pains of life, but the iconic self-help author believes you can find yourself by answering just four questions
Unlikely Collaborators
Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.
"Okay, dad, but GMOs help feed the world."
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.
Why the advertising legend — and author of Alchemy — believes that inefficiency can be genius and insects can unlock innovation.
"Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions."
When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.
How black and white is your thinking?
The psychology of people who cut off all communication—and how that affects their partners.
When it comes to behavior, genetics may play a larger role than you think.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
If you're an atheist with a vocation, who laid that path for you?
Listen, set boundaries, and point them where to go.
If you have any sort of power for any reasonable length of time, you will be changed by it — awareness of the effects is crucial.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
There’s little more infuriating in the world than being told to “calm down” when you’re in the midst of a simmering grump.
How can "you" move on when the old "you" is gone?
In his latest book, Malcolm Gladwell explores a strange phenomenon of group dynamics.
Reading this article would be such a millennial thing to do.
"I am free. It's a lot of effort to be free from the prison that is in your mind, and the key is in your pocket." - Edith Eva Eger
Don't make the mistake of blindly following quantitative metrics — whether you're helping clients or looking for lunch.
"Amid the chaos, he remembered his life being eerily calm as he knew it wasn’t if, but when they would be hacked to pieces. He just kept kicking."
People often say, "Let go," or, "Don't take things to heart." But where's the line with this philosophy?
To maintain momentum and flow, the great novelist Ernest Hemingway didn’t burn himself out — but learned when to put his work down.
Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.