I decided to simplify my wardrobe by creating a minimalist fashion challenge called Project 333. I’ve been dressing with less since 2010 and here are the best things that happened since I simplified my wardrobe. When I… The post The 7 Best Things That Happened After I Simplified My Wardrobe appeared first on Be More…
Pride events are not just parties and fun. They provide a range of benefits that are good for queer people’s mental health, including a meaningful sense of belonging and acceptance.
The principle behind biophilic spaces is that what made us happy and our brains work well long ago has the same effect on us today.
When a loved one is caught in an AI delusional spiral, direct confrontation may backfire. Cultivating insight, self-awareness, and self-care gradually may be a more effective path.
South Korea’s viral trend of fake consumer sites is providing some users with comfort and connection by rewarding anticipation. But is there a cost?
This is the third and final essay on Newcomb’s Paradox. In it I will discuss Nozick’s stipulation about the effect of how the player of the game decides. The paradox itself is described in the first essay in this series. Nozick’s condition is that “what you actually decide to do is not part of the…
“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.” “A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,” William James wrote in his pioneering 1884 theory of how our bodies affect our feelings — the first great gauntlet thrown at the Cartesian dualism of body versus mind. In the century and a half since,…
Therapy for past experiences can help you make sense of old pain, reduce overwhelm, and feel safer in yourself – gently, privately, at your pace.
“How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?” When my atheist engineer grandfather died, my atheist engineer grandmother leaned over the body in the hospice bed that had contained half a century of shared life and love, cradled the cranium in which his stubborn and sensitive…
Every mind, even the greatest, is a product of its time and place. The true visionaries are those unwilling to mistake the figments of their culture for facts; those daring enough to look at the world not through the microscope that magnifies the concerns of the present, not through the telescope that squints at the…
