Melissa Dahl – The 5 Personality Traits That Make for a Better Life

There are many paths to a good life. Some are just more rigorously studied than others. Across many years — and many peer-reviewed papers — psychology researchers have time and again identified two personality traits that tend to correlate with greater well-being: One is extroversion — as in, the more extroverted you are, the more likely you are to be …

Situational Awareness: How to Protect Yourself by Developing your Situational Awareness

I’ve read hundreds of articles on Situational awareness, and I’m usually left scratching my head, wondering how many of these authors can even pretend to write about a subject they know nothing about. Most of the stuff out there seems like a bad technical manual, written by some egghead professor that did a couple of studies in a laboratory so …