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Radical Emotional Acceptance calls on you to celebrate all of life’s emotions — even the negative ones.
Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
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.
“Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea.”
Computerized, job-focused learning undercuts the true value of higher education. Liberal arts should be our model for the future.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
When you can’t enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.
Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.
To the Greek philosopher, all of our actions ultimately aim at our own pleasure.
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love my tsundoku.
The concept of burnout is nothing new. But there are ways to prevent burnout and promote greater engagement with work.
The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
Seneca thought the use of ice was a “true fever of the most malignant kind.”
These five great books should prompt us to work on what needs fixing the most in the world: ourselves.
Like many of us, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius hated waking up early, but his stoic philosophy always helped him get out of bed.
Some of the weirdest characters in Greek mythology were Athenian kings.
“Kids are always asking two questions of parents: ‘Am I safe?’ and ‘Am I real?'”
Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.
Buddhism has rules for slaying your enemies. But the real surprise is finding out who your enemies actually are.
“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
The larger truth on the streets is that no one uses just one drug anymore.
Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.
Metabolism and mitochondrial functioning seem to have far more to do with mental health than many people might expect.
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
Foster your own moments of mystery.
From Atlantis to Thule, these mythical locales have captivated people’s imaginations for centuries.