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You’re Not Just You: How Others Shape Your True Self

Is your true self something you control or discover? Or is it shaped by others? Evidence shows that relationships influence who you are in surprising ways.

Is your true self something you control or discover? Or is it shaped by others? Evidence shows that relationships influence who you are in surprising ways.

Workplace Friendships: Blessing or Trap?

Work friendships can boost collaboration and creativity, but they also risk favoritism and blurred boundaries. Are they worth it?

Work friendships can boost collaboration and creativity, but they also risk favoritism and blurred boundaries. Are they worth it?

The Unexpected Joy of Being Bad at Something

We’re wired to chase mastery, but what if joy can come from being bad at something? Embracing imperfection can spark resilience, connection, and creativity.

We’re wired to chase mastery, but what if joy can come from being bad at something? Embracing imperfection can spark resilience, connection, and creativity.

Reading After All These Years

Personal Perspective: Joanna hadn't read for pleasure in almost 50 years. Now that she has started, nothing is stopping her.

Personal Perspective: Joanna hadn't read for pleasure in almost 50 years. Now that she has started, nothing is stopping her.

Does OCD Steal Your Best Moments?

Does OCD steal your best moments? Here are three easy tips for rocking those mic-drop moments.

Does OCD steal your best moments? Here are three easy tips for rocking those mic-drop moments.

Navigating Emotional Agility Through Classical Music

Use mindful listening to classical music to practice emotional agility, the essential skill of knowing how much effort and which emotion to lead with.

Use mindful listening to classical music to practice emotional agility, the essential skill of knowing how much effort and which emotion to lead with.

The (Hidden) Advantages of Creativity

We know that great inventions, discoveries, and art make creativity valuable. But what about personal and social benefits of creativity in our everyday lives?

We know that great inventions, discoveries, and art make creativity valuable. But what about personal and social benefits of creativity in our everyday lives?

Have Your "I Love You's" Gotten Stale?

Do you find yourself tossing around "I love you"? Why not try some more creative ways to express your affection?

Do you find yourself tossing around "I love you"? Why not try some more creative ways to express your affection?

Mondegreens: When Lyrics Play Tricks on Your Mind

Do you find yourself mishearing lyrics? I do all the time. I recently learned the word for this phenomenon—mondegreen—and how it got its name.

Do you find yourself mishearing lyrics? I do all the time. I recently learned the word for this phenomenon—mondegreen—and how it got its name.

What Is the Digital Wave Doing to Our Analog Minds?

The digital shift restructures cognition, monetizes attention, alters creativity, and sparks resistance. Balancing analog depth with digital efficiency is key to future thought.

The digital shift restructures cognition, monetizes attention, alters creativity, and sparks resistance. Balancing analog depth with digital efficiency is key to future thought.

Cherish This Encounter, for It Will Not Come Again

You never know when an interaction with a person may be your last. Stay attentive and mindful, and make the most of the moment.

You never know when an interaction with a person may be your last. Stay attentive and mindful, and make the most of the moment.

Indescribable Cold: Imagining Cold Water Swimming

Creative depictions of cold water swimming show how writers' insights can advance knowledge of the senses hardest to describe.

Creative depictions of cold water swimming show how writers' insights can advance knowledge of the senses hardest to describe.

How to Stop Chasing Rainbows

The media often focuses on celebrating a happy end result to a journey of making health changes, leaving out the ups and downs. This is misleading.

The media often focuses on celebrating a happy end result to a journey of making health changes, leaving out the ups and downs. This is misleading.

3 Signs That You Might Be a Highly Sensitive Person

3. You need more downtime to recharge.

3. You need more downtime to recharge.

Make Something Out of Your Mental Health Challenges

Need some inspiration for the hidden gifts within your mental health struggles? Lincoln and Darwin got you covered.

Need some inspiration for the hidden gifts within your mental health struggles? Lincoln and Darwin got you covered.

Computer Models of How Ideas Evolve and How We Became Creative

A million years ago, when everything we encountered was shaped solely by forces of nature, something that began as a spark of insight in someone’s mind would have seemed miraculous.

A million years ago, when everything we encountered was shaped solely by forces of nature, something that began as a spark of insight in someone’s mind would have seemed miraculous.

It’s Time to Pick Paint Colors

You can select paint colors that work for you—ones that make it more likely you'll achieve your goals and live a pleasant life as you do so.

You can select paint colors that work for you—ones that make it more likely you'll achieve your goals and live a pleasant life as you do so.

What If and What’s Next? Philosophy in Action

Science fiction tales explore the galaxy but hit close to home.

Science fiction tales explore the galaxy but hit close to home.

Beyond Burnout: How to Flourish in Work and Life

Most of us want more for ourselves than simply surviving burnout. This simple daily practice can get you closer to actually flourishing in life.

Most of us want more for ourselves than simply surviving burnout. This simple daily practice can get you closer to actually flourishing in life.

How We Screw Up Is Predictable

We struggle to transcend coping strategies from childhood that no longer serve us well. These strategies are predictable. Becoming our true self is always a surprise.

We struggle to transcend coping strategies from childhood that no longer serve us well. These strategies are predictable. Becoming our true self is always a surprise.

Dreams as a Source of Transrational Knowledge

Dreams have provided scientific breakthroughs and are a source of transrational knowledge. Read on to learn how you can use dreams to accelerate your own personal growth.

Dreams have provided scientific breakthroughs and are a source of transrational knowledge. Read on to learn how you can use dreams to accelerate your own personal growth.

When AI Makes Art Effortless, What's Left?

In creating perfect art without effort, AI reveals that our flaws and struggles are the true essence of creativity.

In creating perfect art without effort, AI reveals that our flaws and struggles are the true essence of creativity.

The Great Italian Filmmaker Fellini Was an Ardent Jungian

As an advocate of dreamwork, Maslow would have admired Fellini's involvement with Italy's leading Jungian analyst.

As an advocate of dreamwork, Maslow would have admired Fellini's involvement with Italy's leading Jungian analyst.

How to Expand Our Relationships

Expanding our relationships offers a sustainable path to a more extensive definition of mutuality and interdependence through understanding that much is hidden but not unspoken.

Expanding our relationships offers a sustainable path to a more extensive definition of mutuality and interdependence through understanding that much is hidden but not unspoken.

How Art Can Enhance Science

Art and science can be aligned in different ways. We describe one use of art as a tool: using ambiguity to evoke curiosity.

Art and science can be aligned in different ways. We describe one use of art as a tool: using ambiguity to evoke curiosity.

Body Doubling: It’s Not Just for ADHD

I tried an online “writing container” because it seemed like one more thing to cross off my list and say I’d experienced. Instead, I got hooked.

I tried an online “writing container” because it seemed like one more thing to cross off my list and say I’d experienced. Instead, I got hooked.

Exploring the Overexcitabilities of High-IQ People

Those with very high IQs may have at least one type of overexcitability.

Those with very high IQs may have at least one type of overexcitability.

Cultivating Fortitude, Harvesting Resolve

In times of uncertainty, cultivating resilience is essential. Let’s nourish our spirits so we can resist, persist, and thrive.

In times of uncertainty, cultivating resilience is essential. Let’s nourish our spirits so we can resist, persist, and thrive.

Van Gogh’s Madness: A Modern Medical Investigation

Was Van Gogh’s madness fueled by art or alcohol? A modern medical analysis reveals how psychosis, epilepsy, and thiamine deficiency shaped his tragic decline.

Was Van Gogh’s madness fueled by art or alcohol? A modern medical analysis reveals how psychosis, epilepsy, and thiamine deficiency shaped his tragic decline.

Celebrating Happy Homebodies

Is time alone bad for you? Not necessarily.

Is time alone bad for you? Not necessarily.