Wellbeing

Wellbeing

Some experiences continue to pay dividends time and time again.
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Researchers watched for signs of withdrawal — but didn't find any.
Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.
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Warm relationships protect your mind and body from the slings and arrows of life.
When we don't find ways to relieve chronic stress, personal burnout is the likely consequence.
It may be possible to give people the tools to withstand difficulty before it attaches to them.
Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.
You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.
sleep duration
If you want to sleep more, try working less, eating better, and exercising more. Alternatively, you could emigrate to Albania.
The concept of burnout is nothing new. But there are ways to prevent burnout and promote greater engagement with work. 
"Downward counterfactual thinking" — that is, imagining how things could be worse — is a quick and easy way to boost your well-being and gratitude.
Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance.
Brown noise, the better-known white noise, and even pink noise are all sonic hues.
Contrary to popular research, people with more money are happier, but it’s their spending habits, not their account balances, that move the dial.
We don’t understand why loneliness is bad for us if all we can say is that it hurts.
It's perhaps never been harder to resist the urge to overspend.
When other treatments fail, this radical surgery could help.
The idea that we're happier at the beginning and end of our lives is really just a comforting myth.
porn
Instead of liberation, the sexual revolution has led some people, particularly men, to be addicted to porn.
As with any "big idea" progress means a lot of different things to different people and not everyone comes into the discussion with the same priors. Some experts are primarily focused on material progress while others emphasize the importance of moral progress. So to start the discussion, we asked each expert to define the term as they see it from their specific vantage point.
Passengers zooming by in subway.
Creativity and achievement require balancing hard work with the restful power of calm.
digital hoarding
It's time to let go of those emails from your cousin and the photos of your dinner.
Social isolation, back pain, and screen fatigue getting you down?
It’s estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men have an episode of major depression by the age of 65.
Myrkl (pronounced "miracle") is supposed to let you go wild without facing the consequences the next day. But does it actually work?