A Pragmatic Approach to Ideas
With the understanding that fear is the fundamental problem in being human, we have our starting point. To pursue this quest, we must fully deconstruct anxiety, reveal its origins and mechanism, and find its resolution.
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‘The School of Life’ is on a crusade to avail us of our emotional ignorance. Philosopher Alain De Botton seeks to remedy the shortcomings of contemporary education systems and the institutions that have failed to instruct us in how to approach the big questions in life.
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Our cultural institutions have the story backwards. Focus on well-being instead of achievement, and success will follow.
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Interoception offers us insights into “gut feelings,” revealing how bodily signals can guide emotion and cognition—to help us feel intensely.
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Honeybees don’t only inform us of further ecological collapse but invite us into being more mindful: present and compassionate.
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Here are five recent research findings worth considering when weighing the wisdom of “follow your passion” or pursuing a calling in life.
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To better understand how anxiety works in us, we have to see fear in the context where it evolved—with hunter-gatherers thousands of years ago.
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We can’t make claims about human nature when studies only represent a narrow slice of humanity: mostly college students, middle-class respondents living near universities, and highly educated residents of wealthy, industrialized and democratic nations.
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If you succeed in shifting your goals internally, you’ll be happier, because what other people do is largely beyond your control.
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Many in the US are experiencing emotional unwellness, while our foundational institutions are rattling. CBT can help with both.
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Consider how a one’s life would be changed by starting to hear or see things others can’t—but what if hallucinations could offer something good?
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The dog is the only animal that has evolved specifically to be our companion—and has a unique ability to meet our needs.
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The prevailing theory for depression focuses on an alleged chemical imbalance in the brain—meta-researchers are now dispelling this narrative.
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We are often sent messages that we shouldn’t feel negative emotions, so people are highly conditioned to want to change or get rid of their emotions, which leads to suppression, rumination, and/or avoidance—thus impeding our happiness.
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Freedom entails the capacity to think and to judge in private, where solitude empowers the individual to contemplate their actions and develop their conscience, to escape the cacophony of the crowd. Solitude precedes moral thinking.
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Millennials are the generation who came of age during the self-esteem movement. The concept of self-esteem is losing it’s currency, but are self-compassion or self-indifference better frameworks for emotional health?
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Berated by the progressive-left and criticized by academics for his imprecise conceptualization of postmodernism, Jordan Peterson attempts to counter the excesses he sees rampant in an age of grievance hysteria.
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This Taoist parable highlights how our obsession with evaluating outcomes can be a deceiving diversion that distracts us from action and inner peace.
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Not only is the Dark Knight Trilogy a cinematic masterpiece, but it’s also a plat du jour of insight into the consequences of empathy and emotional resiliency.
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Whether parents admit it or not, most have a favorite child, though they should heavily consider whether admitting it would be in any child’s best interest.
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The actions, nonetheless, of our parents and the mentors of our youth bear heavily on our psychological, social, and neurological development.
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