How to Become Who You Actually Want to Be

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

The Strange Fate of Alfred Binet’s Intelligence Test

On the Difficulty of Controlling What We Create

On What We Get Wrong About Madness, and What That Wrongness Costs

Michael Laudor, Carrie Costello, and the Promise America Keeps Breaking

Peter Levine and the Question of Where Fear Goes.

On our body's buried intelligence

Ntozake Shange Refused to Pathologize Herself. Here's What She Did Instead.

On mental illness, artistic form, and who gets to decide what's real

One of America’s Most Important Thinkers Is Someone You've Never Heard Of.

Anna Julia Cooper and the erasure of women’s thought

Do You Matter?

Five questions that highlight the quality of your connections

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 Invention of Self-Doubt

Why Our Doubts Say More About the World Than About Us

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

The Tender Architecture of Childhood

The First Ever How to Live Newsletter

A Field Guide to Spotting Manipulation in Real Time

Crib sheet for the road

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.

How to Influence Who You Become—Using Neuroscience

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

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

The Politics of Being Alone: The Systemic Bias Against Singles.

When One is the Loneliest Number

How to Learn Anything, Really

Richard Feynman’s Timeless Strategy

Seven Inquiries That Reveal the Hidden Self

What you avoid asking might be what you need to know most.

The True Story of My Fake Ex-Husband

In the late 1990s, I met a stranger on the subway, and (illegally) married him a few hours later.

The Basement Prisoners: How Dorothea Dix Exposed America's Hidden Mental Health Horrors

A 19th Century Teacher's Campaign Revolutionized Patient Care

Medicine Without Medicine: The Radical Cure of a Beloved Cult Doctor

John Sarno and the History of Psychosomatic Illness