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Our Anxious Ancestry

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Our Anxious Ancestry

For far longer than we have been here, upright, in our office chairs, in our well-lit rooms, eating industrially made…
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Abandoning Hope

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Abandoning Hope

Our dips in confidence can have an unlikely-sounding source: hope. We become hopeful that things can turn out well and…
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How to Leave a Party

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How to Leave a Party

It is possible to catch a telling glimpse of our levels of underconfidence in a sad quirk of our approach…
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On Becoming a Hermit

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On Becoming a Hermit

It’s one of the telling quirks of history that just as the world was growing ever noisier and more urbanised,…
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Auditing Our Worries

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Auditing Our Worries

One of the basic courtesies we almost never remember to pay our worries is to go back and check how…
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