Why Everyone Believes They See the World as It Is–And No One Does

The psychology of why we experience our opinions as facts, and how it impacts us.

How to Become Who You Actually Want to Be

Our brains have hidden systems. We're not using them.

On Mistaking Anxiety for Perfectionism

The subtle ways anxiety reorganizes itself as virtue

On Knowing Yourself: Four Questions No Honest Life Can Avoid

Why the distance between who you are and who you could be has always come down to four things you already know

There’s a Name for the Texture of Being You

There is a layer of your experience so personal it defeats language entirely. Analytic Philosophy knows its name.

Do You Matter?

Five questions that highlight the quality of your connections

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

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

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

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 Only Manual For Living You'll Ever Need

The Hidden Document I Return to When I Come Undone

The Tender Architecture of Childhood

The First Ever How to Live Newsletter

The Easiest People to Control

Why Smart, Well-Meaning Citizens Still Fall for Dangerous Leaders

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

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

The Strange Human Habit of Believing Our Thoughts

In the space between thinking and feeling