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For Good Fitbod is a beautifully designed app that has helped me consistently hit the gym for over two years, and I’m not the only one who’s found the app helpful. After identifying the first step of their hook, the internal trigger of uncertainty, Chen and Venticinque needed to ensure Fitbod’s Action Phase would quickly solve the user’s psychological need by providing certainty about what they should do in the gym. With one tap on the app, Fitbod creates my next workout, removing the discomfort of uncertainty by quickly telling me which exercises to do, in what order, how much weight to lift, how many repetitions to do, and even how long to rest between sets. But unlike gym memberships, which most people abandon despite continuing to pay dues, the Fitbod founders tell me their app loses very few customers and is used on average nine times per month per user.

Recently, I was invited to discuss how technology might impact children’s mental health at the Johnson Depression Center at the University of Colorado. I shared the stage with Dr. Jean Twenge, author of the book iGen and an article in The Atlantic that got a lot of attention titled, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? The Truth About Kids and Technology Dr. Twenge and I had very different perspectives on how bad technology is for kids and whether tech is even the real source of the associated problems.

The second type of fundamental attribution error occurs when things go well. Here are two ways to make sure the bias doesn’t get the best of us: Have you paused to grasp how many things had to go just right for you to be reading this sentence right now? Remembering how many things outside of our control had to go just right, can help us feel more grateful and reminds us of how lucky we are that so many things we had nothing to do with went just so. The next time you catch yourself about to lose your patience, are tempted to give someone the stink eye or judge them as a bad person, remember they’re human, just like you.

Many parents are concerned with their child’s seemingly obsessive video game play. Generally, parents panic when their kid’s video game playing comes at the expense of doing other things like studying or helping around the house. It also helps parents get into a state of mind to talk rationally about overuse instead of succumbing to the hysterics and moral panic that our parents used to try and force us to stop listening to rock ’n’ roll, watching MTV, playing pinball, or reading comic books. Try letting them set their own limits for how much game time is healthy and help them find ways to stick to the time limits they set for themselves instead of imposing yet more rules.