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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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This scientist collected thousands of secrets. They all had 3 things in common.
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A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
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Your brain is wired for trauma. And it can be hot-wired to forget it.
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There are 38 kinds of secrets. The average person has 13 at any given moment. Michael Slepian explains how that can affect your health.
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“Conflict is useful. The question is how do you deal with conflict effectively.”
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The next time you see your dog sniffing the pavement or another dog’s junk, you should let them. Here’s why.
We all want to have a good, stable relationship with somebody, says Dr. Helen Fisher. So it's important to understand how intense romantic love affects our long-term goals.
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What the ‘decade of the brain’ taught us about drug addiction. (Hint, we had it all wrong before.)
Exercise culture is crazy. But what you need to do is exceedingly simple.
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A neuroscientist explains how to master your focus.
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There are two kinds of suffering. One is pure pain. The other makes life worth living.
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We all play the genetic lottery - and the outcome matters a lot.
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You can learn things 250% faster by unlocking your ‘flow state.’
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The US reduced smoking rates from 50% to 15% with a simple habit hack.
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Half our day is spent not living in the moment. Here’s how to change that.
Habit-forming rituals are subconsciously controlling your life. Here’s how to master them.
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Experiences that put you in a state of flow are shown to override PTSD and heartbreak.
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Are sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll actually good for you?
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He’s written 7 books on happiness. He’s studied it for 30 years. He even taught it at Harvard. What can Tal Ben-Shahar tell you about really being happy?
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Psychologist Daniel Goleman shares what he learned by studying the brain waves of Olympic-level meditators, and his findings are unprecedented.
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Why studying happiness is good for your “psychological immune system,” explained by Harvard “happiness professor” Tal Ben-Sharar.
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IQ tests only measure two of the eight intelligences. Howard Gardner explains them all.
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No amount of success can overcome imposter syndrome without a mindset geared toward growth.
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It’s not a glitch in the matrix. It’s not the Mandela effect. There’s actually a scientific reason you remember things wrong.
The road to happiness is indirect and full of frustration.
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James Gleick, the author of biographies of Isaac Newton and Richard Feynman, discusses what they and other geniuses have in common.
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