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Type “information overload” in Google and that’s what you get: 2,790,000 results in 0.31 seconds. Everything we want to know in a third of a blink. But there’s a difference between information and transformation. Just because we know more doesn’t mean we do more. Now more than ever it’s not about right information as much […]

Last post, I made the point that we follow The Code’s five laws instinctively, automatically. Just like a toddler doesn’t know how she walks, but walks anyway, we often don’t know why we do what we do. We just do. So, if we follow these laws automatically, why does it matter knowing what they are?

I have the worst luck in traffic. I switch into one lane. It slows down. So I switch back. Sure enough, as soon as I do, that lane slows down, and the cars in the other lane speed up. Argg. No matter which lane I’m in, it feels like I’m going slower than the guy

I recently attended a board meeting where I sit as a director. As a passing remark during a break, I told fellow board members about my last twenty years researching and last seven years writing The Code. “It just may be one of the best kept secrets on earth. The secret of human nature,” I

Last couple posts I’ve been thinking about decisiveness. Decide is the killer word. And we live in a zombie apocalypse of overchoice, options lurching toward us from everywhere. Now more than ever we’ve got to become highly trained killers. Of options, that is. We’ve got to be more decisive. So, how do we decide? In

The other day I went to Best Buy to look at digital cameras. They offered over fifty choices. My brain fried in ten minutes. I left without buying. I wanted to make the best choice. I couldn’t make any choice.     Then over to Safeway to pick up cheese for Sandy. Do I want

On one hand, the world is ours. We have more freedom and power to do more things than ever before in human history. On the other hand, the world isn’t ours, and never has been. There’s not near enough time to do all the things we can do and want to do. We can’t go

An ancient scripture writer admonished us to “be transformed by the renewing of our mind.” “Transformed” here is a Greek word, metamorphoo. It’s where we get “metamorphosis,” a biological process of abrupt change. Tadpoles become frogs through metamorphosis. Nymphs become dragonflies. Caterpillars become butterflies. And this transformation happens in us as we “renew our minds.”

I’ve always been curious about how things work. I love to figure things out. But long ago I set out on a more ambitious quest: to discover how we human beings work. Specifically, how we think, and how thoughts create behavior and, eventually, our lives.     It’s no easy project. The three-pound magic walnut

In my observation, experts in human nature like psychologists and cognitive scientists don’t obsess about irreducible simplicity like engineers do. Meaning, they aren’t as rigorous in finding the simplest functional solution, or what I call “simplest functional form.” Unlike engineers whose inventions must have the most bang for the buck in a competitive marketplace to