This archive page lists the last 100 articles in the Ness Labs library by date and title. Articles are listed in reverse chronological order with the newest articles at the top and the oldest ones at the bottom. If you want to read the best articles first, you can also explore the library by thematic categories.
- Why we wait: Understanding the emotions behind procrastination
- Groupthink: when collective decisions go wrong
- Unlocking the power of optionality
- The science of curiosity: why we keep asking “why”
- Magnification and Minimization: Two “Binocular Tricks” of the Mind
- High-leverage activities: how to identify your energy multipliers
- Reciprocity decay: How our desire to give back wanes over time
- Harness the power of AI to supercharge your productivity with Nils Janse, founder of Delibr
- Purpose Anxiety: The Fear of not Knowing your Purpose in Life
- Chronotypes: Is it better to be a night owl or an early bird?
- The Introspection Trap
- Mindware: A Theory of Learnable Intelligence
- Vectors of Action: The Power of Velocity over Speed
- Thinking Beyond the Brain: Why Neuroplasticity is Overhyped
- The Science of Self-Compassion
- The Paradox of Goals
- Talent archetypes: What is the “shape” of your skills?
- Change fatigue: When our brain’s adaptive capacity is depleted
- The Abilene paradox: When not rocking the boat may sink the boat
- 2022 year in review: wander and wonder
- Self-Motivation: how to build a reward system for yourself
- Digital detoxes don’t actually work
- Deliberate doubt: the art of questioning our assumptions
- Proprioceptive writing: a method for embodied self-reflection
- Reopening the mind: how cognitive closure kills creative thinking
- The psychology of prestige: why we play the social status game
- The Uncertain Mind: How the Brain Handles the Unknown
- Single-tasking: the power of focusing on one task at a time
- AI and I: The Age of Artificial Creativity
- The default effect: why we renounce our ability to choose
- The science of motivation: how to get and stay motivated
- Everything is aiming: forget the target and focus on your aim
- Define every problem: how to write a personal problem statement
- How to figure out a career change
- How to turn problems into a curiosity engine
- The four horsemen of fear
- Chaos surfing: from surviving to thriving in chaotic times
- How to make more time to read
- Stay in the know and discover your next big idea with The Hustle
- Zemblanity: the inexorability of unfortunate discoveries
- How to overwrite your cognitive scripts
- From inspiration to idea sex: how to generate ideas on demand
- Novelty fallacy: why new isn’t always better
- Fear setting: an exercise to define and conquer your fears
- Metacognition: the mind’s Swiss Army knife
- Comparison anxiety: how to stop comparing yourself to others
- Liminal Creativity
- The power of introspection
- Creative aliveness: turning life into a creative adventure
- Can you get a doctorate online, and should you?
- Mimetic learning: the power of learning through imitation
- Habit trackers: does tracking your habits actually work?
- Protect your focus with Peter Hartree, creator of Inbox When Ready
- The arrival fallacy: why we should decouple our happiness from our goals
- Availability bias: the tendency to use information that easily comes to mind
- The paradoxical power of humility: how being humble is a strength
- Creative Problem Solving: from complex challenge to innovative solution
- How to use strength-based journaling for self-esteem and resilience
- Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind
- Present bias: how instant gratification impacts your long-term goals
- How to access paywalled research papers without institutional access
- The psychology of unfinished tasks
- Temptation bundling: how to stop procrastinating by boosting your willpower
- Servant leadership: why being a servant leader is worth the work
- Building an extension of your mind with Tobias van Schneider, co-founder of mymind
- The false compromise fallacy: why the middle ground is not always the best
- The dangers of apophenia: not everything happens for a reason
- Weak arguments and how to spot them
- The psychology of negative thinking
- The TEA framework of productivity: managing your time, energy, and attention
- How to design a sustainable workplace at home and in the office
- How developing mental immunity can protect us from bad ideas
- How to increase your creativity by cultivating creative self-efficacy
- What is neurodiversity?
- The emerging theory of authentic leadership
- Productivity addiction: when we become obsessed with productivity
- Psychological reactance: how we react to the threat of losing our freedom
- Using the goal gradient hypothesis to help people cross the finish line
- How to become a brain myth buster
- The danger of emotional reasoning and using our emotions as proof
- Mae Jemison: the power of developing multifaceted skills
- Rosalind Franklin: the power of unbounded curiosity
- Vera Rubin: The power of evidence-based visual thinking
- Elizabeth Blackwell: the power of applied education
- Simone de Beauvoir: the power of intellectual advocacy
- Aspasia: the power of debate and collective learning
- Katherine Johnson: the power of questioning the rules
- Jane Goodall: the power of experimentation and conviction
- Ada Lovelace: the power of imagination and poetical science
- Marie Curie: the power of sharing radical ideas with the world
- The Pink Elephant Paradox: how intrusive thoughts impact our emotions and decisions
- Gratitude traps: why we should be critical of gratefulness
- Mental filtering: when we focus on negative details
- The science of self-love: the evidence-based benefits of loving yourself
- Social proof: is there always safety in numbers?
- Your circle of competence: should you stick within it or step outside of it?
- Belief perseverance: why we cling on to old ideas
- Learned optimism: how to cultivate a talent for positive thinking
- The art and science of abstract thinking
- Attentional bias: the invisible puppeteer behind our decisions