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While weltschmerz — literally "world-pain" — may be unpleasant, it can also spur us to change things for the better.
An argument for emphasis on subjective experience.
If music is a window onto truth, what does screaming reveal?
Schopenhauer and Freud can help teams navigate the most prickly of collaboration problems.
It's a proclivity that sometimes leads to internal conflicts and high turnover.
When high-anxiety situations arise in the workplace, we tend to react by fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning — but there’s a hidden fifth option.
Admitting that we know little about our future selves can radically improve our decision-making.
The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
Beer before wine and you'll feel fine? Well, it depends.
Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.
Sometimes you just want to hear, "I know what it's like."
You really can get by with a little help from your friends — if you also look beyond your personal to-do list.
Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the "3 Rs": rage, resentment, and revenge.
Bob Dylan gave us the paradoxical gem "there's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all." He had a point.
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been a controversial diagnosis since it was first described, back in the 1940s.
His career helped define humanity’s place in the world by bringing us “a little closer” to our ape relatives.
Ditch the old brain vs. heart assumptions, and instead think about a heart-led brain.
A growing body of research suggests that optimism plays a significant role in promoting both physical and mental well-being.
The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.
The Reitoff principle gives us permission to "write off" a day and intentionally step away from achieving anything.
Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
Neuroscientist Tali Sharot recently spoke with Big Think about a two-step method for escaping the dark sides of habits.
When all your teammates fall for "the emperor's new clothes," the results can be disastrous — here's how to bust the groupthink.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn't make them the behavioral playbook.