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 ...

Given the popularity of astrology columns, self-help books and personality quizzes, there’s plenty of reason to believe that most – if not all – people are intrigued to learn more about themselves, to ...

In my therapy office, I’ve found that to live with greater purpose, we must think differently about where it comes from ...

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

has spent more than 20 years as a journalist, writing primarily about sexuality. Now in her mid-40s, a member of the sandwich ...

How do we stay true to our roots in a changing world? The last ‘cave man’ of this remote island strikes a delicate balance ...

Some masculine norms are a straightjacket, depriving men of the connections they need. It takes bravery to leave them behind ‘I get sad at weddings, but not for the reason you might think. When I see ...

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 ...

When OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, many people were impressed and even a little scared. ‘We have summoned an alien intelligence,’ the author Yuval Noah Harari wrote, with colleagues, in The New ...

The other day, I found out that one of my close friends had an extra ticket to a football playoff game, and he invited another friend instead of me. Hurt by this apparent slight, I thought I must have ...

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Have you ever decided not to go for that job promotion because you believe you’re not qualified enough? Or avoided asking a neighbour for help because you feel you’d be a nuisance? Or taken your ...