The Covid-19 pandemic has changed how we work. And some will feel anxiety over leaving the comfort of working from home to return to the office. However, a significant percentage of the American workforce is likely to continue to experience a combination of on-site work and remote work. But despite this, for those with social anxiety, returning to your offices, for however short a time may still not be a pleasant prospect. Thankfully, however, there are things we can do to overcome anxiety and ease our transition to working from offices again. In particular, we can use time spent working remotely to address anxieties and concerns about returning to offices. To that end, this post focuses on some of the most salient and actionable insights from cognitive and behavioral psychology. And contrary to popular belief, insights gleaned from these disciplines are highly relevant and specific to everyday life, especially so…

I suspect you’d like to make decisions you won’t regret. Right? Especially since we make 35,000 decisions each day, according to various estimates, and most are unconscious. Most are trivial, but some are consequential; what to study, which career path to take, who to date or marry. The fact is, the quality of our decisions determines the quality of our lives. Yet, we receive almost no training in decision making. Most of us learn about decisions the hard way — when we suffer the painful consequences of bad ones. I have plenty of experience in that!: Years ago, I made the awful decision to drink and drive. I was drinking heavily at a tailgate and decided to get behind the wheel. You can guess what happened next: flashing lights, a breathalyzer, and handcuffs. Thankfully, I didn’t hurt anyone, but the DUI was a crushing setback that pained me for years.…