For the inner work that doesn’t shout. Emotional steadiness, self-trust, meaning, and the kinds of insights you only earn by living long enough to notice what actually matters.
When wonder becomes a wellness protocol, something in it goes quiet — and the researchers chasing it know this better than anyone.
The Laboratory of Awe: What Happens to Wonder When You Try to Measure It Read More »
Devotion without doubt curdles into obedience — and the first guru to unmask is the one wearing your own face.
A meta-analysis of sixteen studies and 25,471 people found that the two standard ways of counting childhood maltreatment agree poorly on who was harmed, and the authors warn that the gap cannot be read as direct evidence that the adults’ accounts are the unreliable ones.
Across four studies of 1,936 regular smokers, the sense that quitting would make you a stranger to yourself did not measurably predict quitting on its own in the year-long study that followed real behaviour, and reassurance against that feeling did not measurably move quitting on its own in the one-month experiment either. What tracked quitting was how far a person still was from calling themselves an ex-smoker.
A fruit fly’s entire nervous system now exists as a searchable object: 166,691 neurons and roughly 11,700 cell types, wired together by about 125 million synaptic connections, reconstructed from a single male Drosophila melanogaster by researchers at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus working with Google Research and collaborators including the Cambridge Connectomics group at the MRC
What you’ve been calling personality may be a crowded room of characters — the fraud, the hero, the victim, the rebel — each convinced they are you.
Ninety-four percent of the friendships people named, they expected to be named back. Fifty-three percent of the ties in that network were mutual. The gap between what people expected and what the network actually held is not a story about who is likeable.
Purpose was never supposed to be a product you extract from yourself and sell back to the world — and mistaking it for one is why so many thoughtful people feel late for a life they haven’t started.
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There is a wolf who does not leave the pack, and does not fully belong to it either — and this is the harder animal to be.
The Wolf That Stays: On Belonging to Something the Pack Cannot Bless Read More »
