Honesty has fallen out of fashion, yet it is essential to self-improvement. How can we cultivate this neglected virtue? There is little controversy that honesty is a virtue. It is an excellence of ...

Material possessions can be powerfully alluring – whether it’s buying new stuff we don’t need or can’t afford, or holding on to things for way too long. At the extremes, these inclinations can become ...

Screens and social media get the blame, but the real problem lies in how we measure intelligence in the first place ...

Journaling is an art and a daily practice that allows you to write your life and find your way, one sentence at a time When researching other people’s lives, authors often visit archives to dig into ...

When John came to McLean Hospital for treatment, most of our team was convinced he would kill himself. As a middle-aged white man with severe and chronic depression, significant physical pain, easy ...

You’ve probably noticed yourself moving your hands when you talk, and seen other people doing it too. The more excited you are about what you’re saying, I bet the more likely you are to move your ...

Friedrich Nietzsche’s well-known reputation as a philosophical provocateur is partly the result of his commitment to disabusing his readers of a variety of beliefs: their beliefs in a higher purpose, ...

The inevitability of ageing stood out to me in a series of incidents. Some friends from college were on their way over for a weekend visit, and I decided to grab a glass of water before they arrived.

At the brain level, wanting and liking are distinct phenomena. In this excerpt from a lecture at HowTheLightGetsIn festival, Barry C Smith, the director of the Institute of Philosophy at the ...

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In the first chapter of the ancient Daoist masterpiece the Zhuangzi (attributed to Zhuang Zhou, c369-286 BCE) there is a parade of marvellous animals and plants: a fish named Roe, measuring thousands ...

After their plane crashed into the sea, a pilot and his wingwalker get back up in the air and learn to love flying again ...