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Worry and rumination
guide
How to stop overthinking
Grappling with your thoughts will leave you even more entangled in worry. Use metacognitive strategies to break free
by Pia Callesen
Pleasures and pastimes
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Feel free to stop striving: learn to relish being an amateur
by Xenia Hanusiak
Knowledge and reason
idea
Self-knowledge is a super power – if it’s not an illusion
by Jared Peterson
Folk art
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A joyously animated myth retells why painting is prayer to India’s Bhil people
9 mins
Thinking and intelligence
guide
How to think clearly
By learning to question and clarify your thoughts, you’ll improve your self-knowledge and become a better communicator
by Tom Chatfield
The body and physical health
idea
Magic helped us in pandemics before, and it can again
by Matthew Melvin-Koushki
Neuroscience
idea
The fascinating science of pleasure goes way beyond dopamine
by Dean Burnett
Thinkers and theories
guide
How to deconstruct the world
Don’t believe everything you hear, read and watch. To puncture received ideas about culture, start thinking like Jacques Derrida
by Peter Salmon
