Psychology

Everything we do in one sense or another is consummatory. We consume religious narratives, we consume literature, we consume friendships. Our mate choices are the ultimate form of consumer choice.

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

Humans can be parasitized by actual brain worms, but also by idea pathogens that cause them to behave in profoundly maladaptive ways.

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

I want you to not deny your shadow, your darkest impulses, but to find ways to use them and turn them into something productive. We ought to take that ambition, those aggressive impulses, and channel them into our work, into great causes, into justice.

Author of "The 48 Laws of Power" & Strategist

You have to have some humility in life before you can begin to understand yourself, and before you can begin to change yourself, the world, or other people. If you only think others have problems, you're never going to be able to look at yourself and change who you are.

Author of "The 48 Laws of Power" & Strategist

The number one thing I've discovered is that people deny that they have any of these traits. We always want to say it's that other person who is a narcissist, the other person is aggressive, they have envy, but no…. not us. We deny we have these qualities and make out as if we are the exception.

Author of "The 48 Laws of Power" & Strategist

When you love what you do, when you're excited about your field, when you've chosen a path that connects with you personally- you will learn fast, you will accomplish in 5 years what it would take others 15 years to do.

Author of "The 48 Laws of Power" & Strategist

When I look at my own life- the things that I'm most embarrassed about are the moments where I acted, or didn't act, because of fear. The moments I'm most proud of are those where I acted with some semblance of courage.

Author & Stoicism Expert; Marketer & Media Strategist

When you have an unlimited view into every awful thing that's happening in the world, as well as every minor thing, you can become paralysed. It's hard to know what to spend time and energy on.

Author & Stoicism Expert; Marketer & Media Strategist

To have courage, you need fear. Courage is not the opposite of fear, rather it is the triumph over fear. There is nothing courageous about a guaranteed outcome.

Author & Stoicism Expert; Marketer & Media Strategist

The first thing we can notice is how much trouble we could cause if we act like we don't matter and cease to take care of ourselves, and the people around us.

Clinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual

Money can't solve many of the problems that truly plague people. It can't solve the problems in a relationship between a husband and wife, beyond the narrow economic front. It can't straighten out the relationships you have with your children—in fact, it can make them worse.

Clinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual

The evidence suggests, unfortunately, that once you roughly earn a lower middle-class standard of living, additional money you earn beyond that has almost no effect on your quality of life.

Clinical Psychologist, Author of "12 Rules for Life," Public Intellectual

The 'confidence gap' begins to manifest itself in girls at an alarmingly young age. For example, a recent study on gender stereotypes and children's perception of brilliance revealed the worrying fact that girls start doubting their own intelligence and capabilities as early as age six.

Wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair & Human rights lawyer

The greatest leaders have humility. A good leader is a humble leader. A good leader listens to people, gets other inputs, admits when they're wrong… and that boils down to humility; it's the single most important characteristic that I see in leaders.

Former Navy SEAL Commander & Leadership Author

War teaches you that there are many different types of people, good and bad, and you have to understand that good and evil co-exist, and it's up to you to calculate your way through the world, understanding where people are rooted.

Former Navy SEAL Commander & Leadership Author

If you want to see where human nature is most revealed, you have to look at human beings in their most stressful and painful scenarios. It is in those situations that you can learn how people behave and how you can behave.

Former Navy SEAL Commander & Leadership Author