Eric Barker Quotes

Shawn Achor’s research at Harvard shows that college grades aren’t any more predictive of subsequent life success than rolling dice. A study of over seven hundred American millionaires showed their average college GPA was 2.9.

To really be creative, you need to step out of that hyperfocused state of tension and let your mind wander.

For an extra boost, try writing your story down. Research shows it can make you 11 percent happier with your life.

Economist Henry Siu said, “People who switch jobs more frequently early in their careers tend to have higher wages and incomes in their prime-working years. Job-hopping is actually correlated with higher incomes, because people have found better matches — their true calling.

WNGF — doing what is winnable, has novel challenges and goals, and provides feedback. Plus, games are always more fun when played with other people.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Most couples wait too long to go (to marriage counseling). There's an average six-year delay between the first cracks in a marriage and actually getting help...

When entropy decays the happiness of a marriage over time, it's not just a linear downward progression for everyone. Often, there's a phase change (like water to ice)... In marriage this goes by the appropriately intimidating term negative sentiment override.

Idealization hasn't faded — it has flipped. If love is positive delusion, NSO is utter disillusionment. You are biased against, not toward, your partner. The facts haven't necessarily changed, just your interpretation of them. Rather than attributing problems to context, attributions now lie in someone's poor character traits.

Spending 5 percent of your time trying new things, knowing you will quit most of them, can lead to great opportunities. (And not all of them need to involve concussions.)

Extraversion was negatively related to individual proficiency.” What’s that mean in English? The more extroverted you are, the worse you are at your job.

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

He’d watch Saturday Night Live, record the episodes on a video cassette recorder, transcribe the tapes by hand, and study the jokes. He scoured TV Guide every week to see which comedians were going to be on the talk shows. He wrote a thirty-page paper on the Marx brothers when he was in the fifth grade.

Nobody wants to be the next karōshi statistic.

Success is not the result of an single quality; it's about alignment between who you are and where you choose to be.

Turn tragedy into fuel for greatness

Shawn Achor’s research at Harvard shows that college grades aren’t any more predictive of subsequent life success than rolling dice.