The small pleasures in life

I even remember thinking as I left, as I turned on my woefully insufficient flashlight on my phone, I hope this isn’t a mistake.

What if being productive doesn’t mean feeling productive? A paradox of productivity is that the things that feel productive—working incessantly, checking off lots of tasks, feeling strained and drained—are often not what produces important accomplishments.

Rapture is a delight that turns us both towards the object of attention and towards oneself, resulting in a sense of freedom.

A therapist explains how to navigate insecure attachment and find better ways to communicate and address conflict with your partner.

Knowledge workers who feel burned out and that work is pointless, meaningless, and grinding, have been talking more about opting out, “quiet quitting,” and doing nothing. My guest would argue that, in fact, productivity itself isn’t the problem…