It’s probably all too familiar. Against your best intentions, you find yourself reaching for a late-night snack again. You snap at a colleague who didn’t really say anything wrong. You find excuses so ...

Every day we experience many desires—we want to watch the next episode, buy another gadget online, or eat the slice of chocolate cake. Is resisting all these desires (or as many as we can) the ...

Self-control has long been regarded as one of the strongest predictors of success. Most of us can picture that colleague who never misses a deadline, volunteers for extra projects and keeps everything ...

We think we need greater self-control to be happier. But a new study suggests the arrow of causation points the other way. We often think of self-control as something we need to develop to be happy.

“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.” —Viktor Frankl Creating meaning is a learnable skill that depends on the objects of our focus. Focusing on unimportant ...