Christina Crook discusses practical techniques for battling online fatigue and disconnecting from our devices in order to fully engage in everyday life again.
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How to deal with workplace bullies
Tessa West examines the different personality types that tend to make work miserable and the methods of social psychology you can employ to neutralize them.
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Art can open our minds to new solutions
Amy E. Herman explains her method for training leaders to look to works of art to mend what’s broken in their organizations.
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How lesbian culture went mainstream
Jill Gutowitz discusses her personal essays about how lesbian culture went mainstream and her own place in it, using pop culture as a measure of society’s values.
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She found freedom by leaving America
Tiffanie Drayton discusses her move as a child to the U.S. – where she experienced racism – and her decision as a young adult to move back to Tobago.
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What does God look like?
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, professor of Hebrew Bible and ancient religion, discusses her research of the Bible to arrive at a portrait of a complex god whose appearance was shaped by early worshipers.
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Why we should take flat-earthers seriously
Kelly Weill explains why people are drawn to the idea that the world is a pancake surrounded by ice and our contemporary moment that leads them there.
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Some introverts find peace while everyone else sleeps
Faith Hill reveals the lives of extreme introverts – people who crave being alone – and the ways they get around interacting with the rest of society.
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How to kick your success addiction and love your work
Arthur C. Brooks discusses his research to understand how to move past waning opportunities for advancement and embrace aging with all its many wonderful possibilities.
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Who really writes movie scores?
Mark Rozzo talks about how name-brand composers often employ assistants to do much of the heavy lifting – and how the credit and money often isn’t shared fairly.
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In Big Tech, work is religion
Carolyn Chen discusses her research in Silicon Valley, where she found spiritual practices like mindfulness are used to increase production while affiliations with places of worship outside the office are slipping away.
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Positive thinking can bring you down
Psychotherapist Whitney Goodman explains why the messages we’re getting about always being happy are making us depressed and anxious, and what to do about it.
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