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How to Weaken the Hold of Addiction
Many of us are prey to addictive behaviours which we know run contrary to our deeper interests but which we find ourselves entirely unable to desist from at key moments.
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Charles Darwin and the Descent of Man
It is completely understandable that we are often maddened by what might be called ‘normal’ humanity. In such moods the 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin has much to say to us.
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Straightforward vs. Complicated People
A basic distinction in humans is between those who are simple and straightforward to deal with – and those who are – as we tend to be reminded when we interact with them – repeatedly tricky or complicated to handle.
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Probably the most remarkable thing about this ostensibly very ordinary painting is that it was made in the last months…
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Why Illusions Are Necessary to Achieve Anything
We tend to imagine that good and purposeful people must always have an appetite to face the truth. But what…
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Sociability
The Loveliest People in the World
The loveliest people are not the applauded and the haughty ones, the elated and the optimistic ones. They are the…
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Self-Knowledge
12 Signs That You Are Mature in the Eyes of Psychotherapy
As we know only too well, becoming an adult has very little to do with turning 18 or 22, driving…
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Leisure
Eight Rules to Create Nicer Cities
In almost no area of modern life are the potential solutions simpler and our attachment to our errors greater than…
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Self-Knowledge
We Need to Change the Movie We Are In
It would be hard to think of two more different kinds of film than those of Arnold Schwarzenegger on the…
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Self-Knowledge
The Breast and the Mouth
The mouth and the breast are two central features of human anatomy, emblematic of two vital functions: eating and feeding,…
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Can Childhoods Really Matter So Much?
For over a hundred years, we’ve been telling ourselves a powerful idea about how human beings work: that childhoods are…
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The Past Was Not in Black and White
It’s a sign of how much photography influences our sense of what the past looked like that it’s hard not…
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Why Illusions Are Necessary to Achieve Anything
Sociability
The Loveliest People in the World
Self-Knowledge
12 Signs That You Are Mature in the Eyes of Psychotherapy
Leisure
Eight Rules to Create Nicer Cities
Self-Knowledge
We Need to Change the Movie We Are In
Self-Knowledge
The Breast and the Mouth
Self-Knowledge
Can Childhoods Really Matter So Much?
Leisure