Change Your Life Using Design Thinking From IDEO.

What happens when you stop trying to fix yourself—and start prototyping your life instead?

What it Means to be a Self.

Where Does the "I" of ME Live?

On the Difference Between Feeling and Emotion

How mislabeling our experience is keeping us stuck

Octavia Butler's Method for Reaching Impossible Goals

The sci-fi legend's practice of writing from the future

This Forgotten 67-Year-Old Technique Reveals Your Blind Spots

Why You Don’t See What Shapes Your Thinking

How We Think About How We Think

A Nazi soldier, a Nobel Prize, and the map of human irrationality

The Most Important Parenting Question You've Never Been Asked

The well-meaning behavior that harms children

Why Trying to Feel Safe Never Works: Winnicott on the Fear of Breakdown

D.W. Winnicott's unsettling theory about the catastrophe you're still waiting for

The Secret Life of Coping: The Private Strategies of an Anxious Person

From the Mixed-Up Files of Ms. Amanda J. Sternweiler

Susan Sontag On Experience as the True Language of Understanding

Why Direct Experience Transcends Academic Knowledge

The Unbearable Lightness of Not Being Yourself

How I Stopped Being Myself Long Enough to Get Better

The Invention of Self-Doubt

Why Our Doubts Say More About the World Than About Us

Your Brain Is a Liar. Here's How One Psychiatrist Proved It.

Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.

The Self-Awareness Paradox: Why 95% of Us Are Wrong About Ourselves

You're not as self-aware as you think (and neither am I)

The Overlooked Observation That Keeps Us Coming Back

Bluma Zeigarnik’s framework for designing focus and closure.

The Only Manual For Living You'll Ever Need

The Hidden Document I Return to When I Come Undone

A Field Guide to Spotting Manipulation in Real Time

Crib sheet for the road

What We Mourn When We Mourn a Celebrity

On Tom Lehrer, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and collapsed space.

When You Feel Out of Place in the Human Condition

Notes from an Ontological Misfit

The Social Experiment That Changed How We Understand Ourselves

Solomon Asch and the unbearable pull of agreement.

On Becoming a Person

Carl Rogers on the painful gap between our true selves and performed selves

How to Influence Who You Become—Using Neuroscience

Our brains have hidden systems. Here's how to use them...

The Unspoken Grammar of Love

The Subtle Patterns That Predict Divorce—According to the Psychologist Who Can Foresee It with 93.6% Accuracy

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Disliked

How Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology Explains the Modern Self

Notes & Thoughts: The New York Times 1st Well Festival