How trust impacts your decision-making ability. — Delaying gratification requires an individual to give up an immediate tangible reward for a future one. In most experiments and situations, we can trust that future reward’s existence. But that assumes a certain amount of trust between the person sacrificing and whoever awards them. Several experiments reviewed the mediating effect…

How regulating your emotions helps you make decisions — In 2017, a team of researchers from the CDC set out to uncover trends in complementary health care, finding that meditation had grown threefold, from 4 percent to 14 percent. The researchers labeled it the fastest-growing health trend in America. Many believe meditation is the act of emptying the mind…

It’s no longer your decision how you spend your time. — There is no better way to kill time than a smartphone. Every distraction you could ask for is moments away. Employers forbid cell phones out at work. Keeping your phone out at dinner with friends can be taboo. We know smartphones are severe distractions, yet it’s not always clear why…

Turn your phone into a productivity tool — “Digital well-being” is at the forefront of technology and media consumers’ minds. With the surge in research on screen time and the effects of the attention economy, it feels clear that we’re spending too much time on our phones. But what does it mean to create digital well-being? Google believes…

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Can’t focus? Check your mood. — If you’ve read any self-improvement work in the past decade, you know how important it is to build better habits. Our existence reflects the foundational routines that make up our lives. Unless we try to change those habits, we’ll never become our ideal selves. Central to building habits is self-control…

How your motives drive action — Motivation is a “part of popular culture as few other psychological concepts are.” Those were the words of Martin Maehr and Heather Meyer, speaking almost two decades ago. Since then, the enthusiasm to understand motivation has increased. …

From slacker to self-control master. — Self-control is difficult, but we can improve it by viewing it as reliant on diverse mediators that we can directly affect. The cybernetic control model highlights three stages: goal setting, monitoring, and implementation. …

Willpower in action — Let’s say you want to reduce your time browsing Reddit or watching YouTube. You have a few options, When you open your phone, resist the temptation to open those apps. Remove the apps from your phone or potentially keep your phone out of sight completely. I’m sure there are more…