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decisions

Redux: Every decision my kids made me make in one day

Note: This is the most popular post I ever wrote on this site and it was basically written by my kids!

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You’re Not as Happy as You Think You Are, Behavioral Scientists Report

Marriage is like a sweater. A yellow sweater you bought, and couldn’t return. So says Dan Gilbert, a psychologist at Harvard, and one of the 20 outrageously accomplished behavioral scientists who spoke at a 1-day summit at Stanford last week. Gilbert studies happiness, not knitwear. And his main point is that we humans are terrible […]

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