Corrections
5 pieces filed under Corrections.
Task Aversiveness, In Bar Language
The real predictor of procrastination has a clinical name and nothing to do with being lazy. Here is the number behind the word, and the one thing that actually moves it.
The 21 Days Thing Was Never A Study
Twenty-one days came from a plastic surgeon's book in 1960, not from research. The real number is worse, more useful, and takes the blame off you.
Nobody Claps For This Part
Eight weeks in, doing everything right, and nothing feels like anything. What two large trials actually measured about acting first and wanting it later.
Longer Out Than In
The breathing thing, except the version that was actually tested — including the part where the people it beat were meditating, not doing nothing.
Cortisol, In Bar Language
Everyone online is selling a way to lower it. Here's what it actually is, why yours is supposed to spike at dawn, and the short list of things that really move it.