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Existential Crisis
Because life is hard.
by @fn
getpocket.com
How to Push Past Your Analysis ParalysisYes, you are overthinking it.
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newyorker.com
How People Learn to Become ResilientResilience is a set of skills—and psychologists know how you can learn them.
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bbc.com
How to reduce 'attention residue' in your lifeMundane chores take up our time and headspace. Bundling life admin into specific time slots - known as GYLIO - might be the ultimate act of self-care.
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medium.com
Every Peak Performer Schedules Mental Maintenance — And You Should TooWhen you’re at the top of your professional game, you’re using your brain on perpetual overdrive.
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elemental.medium.com
Everyone is Wrong About Dopamine FastingAvoiding pleasurable activities to reset the brain’s ‘reward chemical’ sounds great. Too bad that’s not how dopamine works.
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mentalfloss.com
What is Mercury in Retrograde, and Why Do We Blame Things On It?Yes, Mercury will appear to move backwards. No, that doesn't mean your electronics or your relationships will fail.
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ideas.ted.com
5 effective exercises to help you stop believing your unwanted automatic thoughtsMost of us live with a constant stream of internal statements, criticisms and commands running through our heads. But we have a choice: We don’t have to let them define us — or our days…
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melmagazine.com
Are the Tech Bros Who ‘Dopamine Fast’ Full of Shit?
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manrepeller.com
Unconventional Life Hack: Think of Your Attention Span Like a Bank Account - RepellerIt’s easy to think of technology as an unhealthy relationship, but these "clingy" tactics are beginning to leave a bitter taste in my mouth.
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theschooloflife.com
On Living in a More Light-Hearted Way -The arguments for approaching life in a grave, serious and unsmiling mood are overwhelming: we are clearly a profoundly wicked species, we continually perpetrate monstrous suffering on one another, our greed and viciousness know no bounds, our minds are fickle and largely out of control, no one gets through existence unscathed and everyday is bad...
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vox.com
These apps make a game out of relieving anxiety. They may be onto something.Popular apps are awarding points for beating "bad guys" and completing "power-ups" — and drawing from real, clinically approved treatments.
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getpocket.com
If There’s No Light At The End Of The Tunnel: QUITWhen the path you’re on can’t take you where you want to be, find another.
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link.medium.com
The Introvert Hangover Is RealSome introverts feel physically ill after too much social stimulation, but why?
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link.medium.com
Laziness Does Not ExistPsychological research is clear: when people procrastinate, there's usually a good reason
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humanparts.medium.com
I Was a Teenage Troll, and Other Stories of HateWhat an anti-Britney Spears website and a song about Barney taught me about hate T he children's television show Barney & Friends premiered on PBS in 1992, just after my fifth birthday. As an American child, I'd loved many TV shows before, but this was the first to really make an impression.
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youtube.com
Why You Don't Need to Be ExceptionalMany of us walk the earth with a feeling that, in order to acceptable, we need to be something very special indeed. It could sound like ambition, but it's c...
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link.medium.com
Fleabag: An Absurdist MasterpieceHas an existential crisis ever looked so chic?
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getpocket.com
Lonely? Short of Friends? Try Looking at It DifferentlyYou never see your friends at home alone in their pajamas, watching The X Factor, and feeling sorry for themselves.
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medium.com
We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death
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link.medium.com
What Teeth Grinding Reveals About Your PsycheThe underlying causes behind this nighttime menace
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