Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

by Eric Barker

Research by Gallup shows that the more hours per day you spend doing what you’re good at, the less stressed you feel and the more you laugh, smile, and feel you’re being treated with respect.

Ruut Veenhoven said, “The quality of a society is more important than your place in that society.”

sometimes quitting is the smartest choice.

In your head, you say between three hundred and a thousand words every minute to yourself.

So what is meaning? Meaning, for the human mind, comes in the form of the stories we tell ourselves about the world.