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Emotional Regulation
Stoicism is popular today but often misunderstood and misapplied. In fact, a naive interpretation of Stoicism is damaging to your well-being.
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What sets trauma apart from regular bad experiences? A leading neuroscientist explains.
The Serenity Prayer is nice — until the missiles come raining down on your city.
The existential philosopher argued that an authentic and meaningful life is measured by choice.
Meditation can put you in a wiser relationship with life.
Adolescents’ brains are highly capable, if inconsistent, during this critical age of exploration and development. They are also acutely tuned into rewards.
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This is not your average dream interpreter. Nightmares, as explained by a neuroscientist.
The puzzle of play
The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.
Considering the perspectives of others has important benefits for individuals and for society. There is one easy way to do it.
John Templeton Foundation
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
When it comes to handling our emotions, we can’t afford to be none the WISER.
Studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain.
“We are biologically programmed to have empathy. It’s something we can’t suppress.”
Mindfulness may be especially useful for gaining more control of your impulses to spend.
Million Stories
Human thinking is antiquated.
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Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky on the science of temptation, and the limitations of your brain’s frontal cortex.
“We suffer more often in the imagination than in reality.”
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Chloé Valdary shares the ancient Stoic principle that can defeat modern despair.
Radical Emotional Acceptance calls on you to celebrate all of life's emotions — even the negative ones.
People engage in creative thinking every day, whether they realize it or not.
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
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The real risks of psychedelics, explained by a Johns Hopkins expert.
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Should you confess to cheating? A Columbia ethics professor explains.
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Your brain is wired for trauma. And it can be hot-wired to forget it.
Parents want the best for their kids, but resilience helps children better cope with life's unavoidable challenges.
Fear creates distraction, and that can be a positive experience.
We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.