Wellbeing

Wellbeing

Eight burnt matchsticks stand upright on an orange background, with the last match forming a scattered, crumbling silhouette.
6mins
If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.
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8mins
Your brain isn’t wired for happiness — but you can change that, explains Yale scientist Laurie Santos.
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Richard Reeves explains the big problems facing men today — and why no one is talking about them.
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Americans without friends have increased 400% in recent years. Here’s why.
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Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.
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Deep secrets don’t explode. They do something worse, explains Michael Slepian.
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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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To be happy, you have to become antifragile first. Harvard’s Tal Ben-Shahar explains.
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‘Flow state’ is a peak performance mental state experienced by the world's highest achievers. Learn how it works in just 7 minutes.
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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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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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A blurred image of a green grassy field bordered by tall trees under a partly cloudy sky evokes a sense of nostalgia.
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Escape a mental rut by using nostalgia.
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Finding happiness in life
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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?
Sludge may be inevitable, but there are better ways to manage such frictions in our daily lives.
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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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Happiness study
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Why studying happiness is good for your “psychological immune system,” explained by Harvard “happiness professor” Tal Ben-Sharar.
Sleeping beauty sleeps in an enchanted forest.
The road to happiness is indirect and full of frustration.