The Best Articles in Psychology and Self Improvement
The Emotion Machine has 500+ articles on many topics related to psychology and self improvement. Here are the most popular articles we’ve published over the past 8 years.
Each section is separated into categories by: happiness, emotions, thinking, habits, goals, relationships, creativity, meditation, and society.
Check them out and get started on your self improvement journey!
3 Sources of Happiness that Aren’t Tied to People or Stuff
Why It’s Worth It to Pay the Costs of Being Yourself
How Perfectionism Destroys Happiness
Reframing Your Dark Side: Embracing Your Shadow Is Key to Genuine Mental Health
5 Attitudes Wired in Happy and Successful Brains
Radical Acceptance of Life’s Never-Ending Bullshit
Happy With Less: Trying Living With One Less Desire
Unconscious Positivity: 5 Ways to Ingrain Happiness Into Your Way of Life
The 4 Fundamental Pillars of Emotional Intelligence
How to Communicate Your Feelings Without Becoming an Emotional Manipulator
The Complete Guide to Stress
How to Create Psychological Distance Between You and Your Past
How to Completely Forgive Yourself
5 Signs You’re a Slave to Your Emotions
7 Ways to Connect More With Your Emotional Self
How We Use Music to Manage Our Stress and Emotions
How to Be a Skeptical Thinker About Facts and Statistics You Find on the Internet
Be Careful of What You Let Enter Your Mind
The Healthy Challenge of Explaining Your Beliefs
3 Types of Exaggerated Thinking That Create Unnecessary Drama
Rewriting the Story of Your Life: A Process of Self-Exploration Through Writing
Metaphors We Live By: How Metaphors Frame Our Experiences in Different Ways
The 20 Most Common Logical Fallacies We Fall Victim to Everyday
The Pragmatic Thinker: Keeping Our Beliefs Grounded in What Matters
The “Five Whys” Exercise: How to Recalibrate Yourself During Periods of Turbulence
Identify Your Habit Loops
The Power of Nudges: Insights on How to Influence Human Behavior
Creating Boundaries Between You and Your Bad Habits
The Power of a Checklist: How to Stay Disciplined and Avoid Stupid Mistakes
Organized Home, Organized Mind: Why a Tidying Marathon Can Change Your Life
Make a Complete List of Your Daily Routine
How to Maximize Your Willpower
Why You Should Believe in Hard Work Over Genes
The “Everything Counts” Mindset for Exercise
7 Simple Principles Behind a Good Night’s Sleep
How to Become a Master of Nonverbal Communication
How to Defuse Heated Arguments Before They Spiral Out of Control
3 Reasons to Give People the Benefit of the Doubt
5 Improvisation Exercises for Improving Your Communication Skills
Good Manners in the 21st Century (And Why It’s So Hard to Be Nice in Today’s World)
9 Tips on How to Be Honest With Someone Without Being Negative
Body Language Is More Revealing Than Words: How to Read People More Clearly
How to Learn From Guilt and Improve Your Relationships
The “Over-Sharing” Epidemic: How the Internet Makes Us Devalue Our Private Lives
How to Build Thick Skin and Stop Being So Sensitive
Start Living More as Your Future Self
What Stands in the Way Becomes the Way
How to Overcome Your Fear of Success
How to Overcome Awkward Phases of Self Improvement
What Do You Live For? A 5 Minute Exercise to Discover Your Most Important Values
How to Stop Being Jealous of Other People’s Success
Systems vs. Goals: Why Sustainability Is More Important Than Temporary Success
Grit and the Need for Achievement
How to Build a Creative Mind That Will Never Run Out of New Ideas
3 Paths Revolutionary Thinkers Take Before They Arrive at Insights
The Psychology Behind What Makes Ideas Popular
The 5 Key Stages of the Creative Process
How to Improve Your Intuition
Mnemonics: The Forgotten Art of Memory
Practice Improvisation to Become a Faster and More Creative Thinker
How to Develop Your Own Creativity in a World of Conformity
Curiosity and the Advantages of a Hungry Mind
3 Common Problems When First Starting Meditation
Urge Surfing: How to Overcome Addictive Behaviors
The Wisdom of Body Awareness
Beginner’s Mind: How to Look at Old Problems in New Ways
STOP Meditation: Daily Injections of Mindfulness
How Culture Influences Our Minds in Profound Ways We Don’t Even Realize
Effective Altruism vs. Feel Good Altruism: How to Make a Bigger Difference in the World
The Origin of Us: Campfires As The Bedrock of Human Civilization
The “Taste Buds” That Shape Our Morality: Why We Have Different Beliefs in Politics, Religion, and Morality
Circles of Empathy: Why We Care About People To Different Degrees
What Great Apes Teach Us About Emotions, Morality, and Civilization
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