is an English teacher who’s interested in the stories people tell themselves and what those reveal. After years of exploring different kinds of therapy, she found an unlikely source of insight in an ...

Whatever sphere you inhabit, whether you’re a pro or amateur athlete, businessperson, teacher, full-time parent or something else entirely, you’re bound to have felt the pressure of your own ...

Research on how we perceive the rate of change shows how you can be strategic about goal tracking and boost your motivation Suppose you just started training for a marathon. You’ve never done anything ...

For many who are chronically connected, a break from tech sounds appealing. Research is uncovering when and how it helps ...

It’s fun stumbling upon psychological concepts in unexpected places. I remember first learning about the Johari Window (an obscure framework for thinking about the limits of self-knowledge) in the ...

How did humans create the earliest words? Iconic vocal sounds, which match form and meaning, likely played a key role Language gives us the power to describe, virtually without limit, the countless ...

In 392 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I outlawed one of the oldest and most well-established mystery cults in the Greek-speaking world, the Eleusinian Mysteries, which had taken place for more than ...

Why has the ‘learning styles’ theory persisted without any evidence? And what do we actually know about how we learn?

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Moshik Temkin is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership and History at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and a faculty affiliate at Harvard University’s Belfer ...

According to the French philosopher Pierre Hadot (1922-2010), ancient philosophy was something that had to be practised at each instant, and the goal of which was to transform the whole of the ...

Even non-representational works can take hold of us, like the breathing colour fields of Mark Rothko’s paintings or the beautiful ambience of Max Richter’s music. Sometimes, artworks have such a ...