Inside your gut lives a busy little civilization. Trillions of bacteria, fungi and other microbes are working away, digesting food, producing useful compounds, training your immune system and occasionally reminding you that eating lunch in six minutes over a keyboard is not exactly self-care. This inner world is called the gut microbiome. It is not […]
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There is something comforting about believing that you are exactly who you think you are. It gives a sense of control, as if your personality were a deliberate creation rather than something that quietly assembled itself over time. “I’m just impatient.”“I don’t like silence.”“I need to stay busy.” All of this sounds intentional, almost refined.
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Just a few years ago, your job had a certain clarity to it, almost a physical presence you could point to. A factory closed, a company downsized, a manager made a decision that, however unpleasant, remained human and therefore explainable. Today, the threat has become far less visible and far more abstract, as if your
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There was a time when you had to look for food, keep warm, and preferably avoid being eaten. Now we can have all these in check, and we still manage to stare at the ceiling like it personally offended us. If boredom were a contagious disease, the modern world would be the kind of place
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As you get older, in your 40s or 50s, you probably start to notice one thing – days, months, events go by seemingly faster. Sometimes you feel that a year passed in the blink of an eye! And it seems, when you were young, time ran noticeably slower – well, you didn’t notice that per
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What truly keeps us healthy and happy throughout life? If you could invest your time and energy in building your best future self, where would you focus? A recent survey of millennials revealed that over 80% see getting rich as a top life goal, while around 50% aim for fame. Society encourages us to work
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If you sat down and asked your brain, “Where’s the real me?”, neuroscience wouldn’t give you a confident answer. For decades, scientists have sought to understand the self – the inner “you” that supposedly owns your thoughts, makes decisions, and guides your life. Surely there must be some control center in the brain, some place
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You often see those people who seem to recharge their social battery by dancing through parties, high-fiving strangers, and complaining at 3 a.m. about how “nobody appreciates their energy.” And then yourself regard parties more like social marathons – possible, but seriously taxing. Maybe you’re one of the former or a mix. For decades, psychologists
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I woke up this morning to rain streaming down the window – just another workday, much like any other. And the usual barrage of thoughts came knocking, desperate for attention. Work tasks, worries about elderly parents and the kids, the commute, things to sort for the next birthday or Christmas, weekend visits to plan, that
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When you sit in the evening with a wine glass half-empty, still some time until good people go to sleep, but too late to plan a party, you might wonder: what was that revered hedonic freedom, for thoughtful Greeks and common pasture folk? What is pleasure, when measured across centuries, when the body has changed
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