This week’s must-reads: Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable

In my work as a behavioral designer, I come across important stories on how psychology influences our behavior. Every week, I share my round-up of the most important stories at the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. I hope you enjoy them!

Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable (NirAndFar) Stepping outside your comfort zone seriously improves your life.

Planning a Vacation Is Practice for a Great Life [AUDIO] (Podcast) Get the most out of your vacation — and life — with just a little planniing.

How Immigrants Drive Entrepreneurship and innovation (Behavioral Scientist) Economist are increasingly interested in the question of how immigrants shape the U.S. economy.

Why managing our workday by merely using to-do lists is a terrible idea (Beyond Productivity) One of the most common misconceptions about productivity is that it’s synonymous with getting more work done.

Punctuality Is Having a Moment (The New York Times) “Fashionably late” falls out of fashion after more than two years of remote work, when, for many people, there was no good reason to be tardy.

Every Day, We’re Told to Use New Lingo. What Does That Really Accomplish? (The New York Times) Thought leaders and activists of past eras put their emphasis on what people did and said — not on ever-finer gradations of how they might have said it.

Happy reading!

- Nir