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Tracking Wonder

How to cultivate this elusive emotion

Empathy

Empathic Curiosity: Where's Your Attention?

Jeffrey Davis M.A. on March 28, 2023

Empathic curiosity is key to deeply understanding and connecting with other people. Here's how to nurture your innate empathic curiosity.

Empathic curiosity is key to deeply understanding and connecting with other people. Here's how to nurture your innate empathic curiosity.

Stress

Reconnect With Wonder This Season

Jeffrey Davis M.A. on December 15, 2022

End-of-year and holiday stress may feel overwhelming, but you have the tools at your fingertips to press pause and find clarity.

End-of-year and holiday stress may feel overwhelming, but you have the tools at your fingertips to press pause and find clarity.

Career

Is Our Always-On Culture Choking Creativity?

Jeffrey Davis M.A. on October 1, 2022

With a revamped understanding of how important downtime is for our mental processing, overdue changes to our current work-crazed culture are needed.

With a revamped understanding of how important downtime is for our mental processing, overdue changes to our current work-crazed culture are needed.

Career

Self-Affirmations Alone Don't Work

Jeffrey Davis M.A. on September 29, 2022

When your mind makes up false stories about you and your life, you can take a different, more empowering perspective.

When your mind makes up false stories about you and your life, you can take a different, more empowering perspective.

Career

The Science of Weekend Recovery

Jeffrey Davis M.A. on September 27, 2022

What you do on the weekends can mean the difference between feeling exhausted or refreshed on Monday morning. Here's how to choose restorative activities.

What you do on the weekends can mean the difference between feeling exhausted or refreshed on Monday morning. Here's how to choose restorative activities.

Anxiety

Breaking Out of the Doomscrolling Cycle

Jeffrey Davis M.A. on June 9, 2022

The impulse to immerse ourselves in information is a very human one, and social media makes that easier. We can harness curiosity for good.

The impulse to immerse ourselves in information is a very human one, and social media makes that easier. We can harness curiosity for good.

Career

Can We Rediscover Our Identity at Work?

Jeffrey Davis M.A. on March 17, 2022

People leaving jobs in record numbers due to burnout and disengagement. Can the workplace become a space to reconnect with ourselves, instead?

People leaving jobs in record numbers due to burnout and disengagement. Can the workplace become a space to reconnect with ourselves, instead?

Attention

The High Costs of Distraction

Jeffrey Davis M.A. on February 17, 2022

Distraction can seem engineered into our jobs and daily lives, but we don't have to let it rule our lives.

Distraction can seem engineered into our jobs and daily lives, but we don't have to let it rule our lives.

Motivation

Setting Goals for a Life Worth Living

Jeffrey Davis M.A. on January 20, 2022

The stress of the past two years has caused many of us to rethink our hustle-culture society; this way of goal-setting can help us reclaim what's important.

The stress of the past two years has caused many of us to rethink our hustle-culture society; this way of goal-setting can help us reclaim what's important.

Perfectionism

Pursue Excellence, Not Perfection

Jeffrey Davis M.A. on December 29, 2021

Staying curious is key to enjoying the process rather than fixating on the outcome. Here's how to avoid the trap of perfectionism by tracking wonder.

Staying curious is key to enjoying the process rather than fixating on the outcome. Here's how to avoid the trap of perfectionism by tracking wonder.

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The Male Psyche

Men have long been silent and stoic about their inner lives, but there’s every reason for them to open up emotionally—and their partners are helping.

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