Steve Burns

Walk down the wellness aisle of any large store, and you'll find many products promising to help you stay calm. Most of them deliver atmosphere. A candle with

Most people learn about money by accident. They pick up habits from their parents, absorb spending norms from their coworkers, and then spend twenty years

Ask what counts as a high-income skill today, and the answer looks different from what it did in 2015. Back then, the list ran through nursing, accounting,

Long books get attention, but short books often deliver the best ideas in the least reading time. A writer working with fewer than 100 pages has no room to

Over the past three decades, I have worked through roughly fifty psychology and behavioral books, looking for the ones that actually change how I think and

Most people put off a good book because they picture a two-week commitment. That's the wrong picture for the ten titles below. Each one can be finished in a

Staying broke isn't usually a math problem. Most people who earn a decent paycheck and still live from one payday to the next aren't failing at arithmetic.

Your attention span didn't just disappear on its own. Apps, notifications, and endless feeds are built to pull focus apart piece by piece, and most people

Why do smart people make dumb decisions? Why does a stranger's opinion carry more weight than it should? Psychologists have spent decades chasing answers to

A working-class manager loses a big customer and spends the weekend wondering what's wrong with them. An hour away, a private equity partner loses eight