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Tal Ben-Shahar explains the Knowing-Doing gap, and how our typical interventions to close it fall short every time.
It became clear to me that for myself and for others, the path to a happier, healthier, and more fulfilled life is not paved solely with additional knowledge. Rather, progress depends on finding better ways to apply the knowledge we already have in our daily lives. But how do we actually do that? How do we bridge the knowing doing gap?
Great thinkers have long kept psychosis at a safe distance. But those asking the biggest questions may find it uncomfortably close.
Classics editor Henry Eliot shares his strategies for getting started, staying motivated, and finding joy in literature’s great books.
Richard Kelly's forthcoming novel, "The Philosophy of Time Travel," ties up loose ends and introduces new mysteries to the "Donnie Darko" universe.
Great thinkers have long kept psychosis at a safe distance. But those asking the biggest questions may find it uncomfortably close.
A map is a text in its own right, and like a Pynchon novel, this one can be read in a multitude of ways.
Tech journalist Joanna Stern spent a year using as many AI products as she could. It changed more than her workflow.
Until recently, nobody had visualized the fungal "Wood Wide Web."
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The 19th-century veterinarian who nearly cracked one of medicine’s oldest mysteries
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