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How we think affects everything from our ability to solve problems to how we understand meaning, value, and purpose

Late historians Will and Ariel Durant spent four decades of their lives studying, compiling, and writing the history of Western…

Loneliness is silent, invisible and as deadly as a smoking habit.

We prize space, privacy and independence, and the richer we get the more of these we can afford, yet their…

Putting Down Your Phone May Help You Live Longer

If you’re like many people, you may have decided that you want to spend less time staring at your phone.…

Creativity, DigitalDetox

Introverts Aren’t Antisocial, They’re Selectively Social

Sometimes it’s easy to tell when someone is an introvert. In large groups, we “quiet ones” can usually be found just…

Five Lies Our Culture Tells – the cultural roots of our political problems

I can make myself happy. This is the lie of self-sufficiency. This is the lie that happiness is an individual accomplishment.…

Individualism, Interdependence, Neoliberalism

Ego & Fame

The well-known phenomenon of “name dropping,” the casual mention of who you know, is part of the ego’s strategy of…

Ego, Identity, Namedropping

Flow – The key to unlocking meaning, creativity, peak performance, and true happiness

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness…

Creativity, Flow

12 stages of burnout according to psychologists Herbert Freudenberger and Gail North

We often don’t realize that we’re suffering from burnout until it’s too late. When we push our creativity and productivity…

Creativity, Identity, Purpose

Pride pumps up our superiority, dignity contains gratitude – three vital differences between pride and dignity

Pride is often colored by a self-view of being better than others. In particular in the art and music scene…

The two kinds of stories we tell about ourselves

We are all storytellers — all engaged, as the anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson puts it, in an “act of creation” of…

The Politics of Conspicuous Displays of Self-Care

There are 1.6 million images tagged with #selfcare on Instagram and a few million more on Twitter and Tumblr, most…

The science behind the rise of narcissism

The rise of individualism (with its focus on the self and inner feelings) and decline in social norms that accompanied…

The Benefits of Emotional Awareness

The key to having a choice about your emotional behavior is to be aware of the fact that you are…

Perfectionism and poverty: why musicians struggle with mental health

“There’s no correlation between how talented you are and how successful you are; it’s not an energy in/energy out thing…

Caring for Your Introvert – The habits and needs of a little-understood group

Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can…

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