The first step to mental decluttering is getting adequate sleep. During sleep, the brain activates a cleaning system called ...

Do you practice meditation, mindfulness and mind-wandering? The first two, meditation and mindfulness, are established ways to take control of your thoughts, increase your awareness and train your ...

“Sometimes I get so annoyed at the things he says to me, I start replaying the scene ad nauseam and cataloging all the times he’s been a jerk. Or I fantasize about what I should have said, or what ...

Most anyone who’s studied human performance has come across discussions of fixed mindset versus growth mindset. Without explicitly referring to mindset, George Bernard Shaw offered an interesting ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. I like gadgets, and so, at times, my digital detox has verged on technophilic decadence. A few months ...

In 1979, Harvard researcher Ellen Langer invited elderly men to spend a week at a retreat designed to remind them of their younger days, surrounded by the art, music, food, games, décor, and more from ...