From the Book - First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Front matters - Front unmatters and front antimatters - Part I. About you - 1. Productivity - An optimizer - Personal productivity - Sharpening the saw vs. cutting - Your mind, your time, your attention - The effects of distraction - Why are people sabotaging themselves? - 2. Hacking your brain, hacking your life. How to hack your cognitive system - How to hack your habit system - How to hack your reward system - Working without distraction: I'm here to make an hour out of fifteen minutes - The project list - The half-hours method - The half-hours method: master class - Competing methods - How to read more effectively - Idea capture - How to sleep - Helping yourself by helping others - 3. Happiness. Your life satisfaction - Habituation - Happiness is in-born - Happiness comes from within - Happiness comes from without - Hang out with friends and loved ones - A (good) marriage and (maybe) children - Happiness and memory - There is more to a good life than being happy - Part II. It's not about you - 4. What we think is right and wrong - Morality vs. selfishness - The expanding circle - The social group - The out-group and animals - Anything that can suffer - Morality, personality, and emotion - The good of the many vs. the rights of the few - Your identity as a charitable person - Doing bad is more powerful than doing good - Your brain on morals - 5. What's actually right and wrong - 6. A work in progress - Having and not having children: moral issues - Ethical purchases - Think globally, act globally - 7. The (numerical) value of human life - 8. Choosing a career - 9. Measure good done - 10. Animals - Is life suffering?
Helping animals - 11. Comparing human to animal suffering - 12. Environmental morality - 13. Choosing charities - 14. How to mobilize people to be good - How people give, how people donate - Are humans good for the world? - 15. When giving gives back - Where does it all end? How much is too much? - The only local activism that makes sense.
