Notes to self

Recommendations and insights from our in-house writers, based on research, books, films and more

A smiling runner in a yellow shirt high-fiving a cheering crowd on a street lined with buildings and trees.

GOALS AND MOTIVATION

What runners call the ‘pain cave’

by Richard Fisher

Painting of a bearded man lying on a wooden bed with a patterned robe, resting his head on his hand, slippers on floor.

MEMORY AND NOSTALGIA

Forgetting in ancient Greece and China

by Sam Dresser

A man with white hair in a suit sitting at the head of an empty boardroom table, facing forward, back toward the camera. Dozens of empty chairs line the outer edges of the room; windows at the rear of the room show trees outside.

WORK AND VOCATION

Don’t fall victim to the Peter Principle

by Christian Jarrett