Barry Schwartz told me: “Good enough is almost always good enough. - Eric Barker

School has clear rules. Life often doesn’t.

Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman found that when you survey people in the moment, their happiness levels are highest while with friends...

To be fair, research by Beverley Fair shows that we're the absolute happiest when with both friends and spouses. But even within a marriage, friendship reigns. Work by Gallup found that 70 percent of marital satisfaction is due to the couple's friendship. Tom Rath says it's five times as critical to a good marriage as physical intimacy.

Neuroscientist Diana Tamir found that your brain gets more pleasure from you talking about yourself than it does from food or money. This is why you should stop doing it and let others do it as much as possible around you.