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Psychology says procrastination about retirement may be less about discipline than identity — brain scans found people often represent their future selves more like strangers than like themselves, and experiments using age-progressed faces made tomorrow’ - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:30:00 GMTResearchers paired strangers and asked them to skip the small talk, and the conversations were less awkward, more enjoyable, and more connecting than either person predicted — suggesting the barrier to being known is often not other people’s disinterest b - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:30:00 GMTThe self-improvement industry sells becoming your best self through grit and mindset, but the large meta-analyses are deflating: grit turns out to be mostly conscientiousness renamed, and growth-mindset programmes move academic results only slightly - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:01:57 GMTMost advice on becoming happier assumes it is up to you, but the evidence is humbler: much of the variation is dispositional, the claim that 40 per cent sits within your control does not hold up, and what works best points outward, towards other people - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:41:11 GMTBeing self-absorbed is usually heard as an insult, but decades of psychology suggest it is closer to the mind's default: we sit at the centre of our own perception, overestimate how much others notice us, and struggle to see the bias in ourselves - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:25:12 GMTSteven Levitt ran an experiment with more than 20,000 coin tosses over decisions people could not make, and the ones the coin told to make the change were happier six months later: his conclusion is that people may be excessively cautious about life-changi - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:35:40 GMTThe Myers-Briggs test is described everywhere as being based on Carl Jung, but its two authors had no training in psychology, one of its four dimensions was their own extension of his theory, and about half of people who retake it do not receive the same four- - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:30:09 GMTThe "21 days to form a habit" rule is wrong — University of South Australia research found habits begin forming around 59 days in, and can take up to 335 days, meaning most people quit just as the process is finally getting started - Silicon CanalsSilicon Canals · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:30:00 GMT