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You’re busy, “crazy-busy” even, so why would taking more breaks and wandering off for walks during the working day help you become less busy and more successful? Because, when done properly, less is more says Christine Carter
Christine Carter · 7,387 views · 4.2 stars
Sometimes I find, no matter how uncomfortable it makes me and others feel, I have to speak the truth. We can use all the euphemisms we want, but the literal truth is that schools, as they generally exist in the United States and other modern countries, are prisons. Human...
Peter Gray, Ph.D. · 97,527 views · 4.6 stars
Many people have little trouble confessing to being hard on themselves, to being “my own worst critic” or to being a perfectionist. They are, after all, merely confessing to something that our culture upholds as a virtue: the struggle against the self. People are generally...
Charles Eisenstein · 10,996 views · 4.5 stars
"Influence is NOT about convincing people to want different things than they already want. It's about showing them that the way to get what they already want, is by following you." - Charlie Houpert
Lately, I've been interested in exploring how we can apply this strategy to
Tim Hjersted ·
6,399 views · 5 stars
Shefali Tsabary's latest book argues that parents need to focus more on themselves and less on their children.
Diana Divecha · 8,434 views · 4.5 stars
"Efficacy is the ability to produce a desired result. But are the results we're achieving, the ones we intent? Our intelligence is remaking the world before our eyes. What kind of future do you want to see?"
2 min · 2,980 views · 3.5 stars
The most potent predictor of sexual misconduct goes beyond individual perpetrators.
Emily Peck · 1,638 views · unrated
Lyndon Johnson famously proclaimed his requirements for an appointee: “I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.” Johnson and his ass-kissers were authoritarians.
Bruce E. Levine · 5,622 views · unrated
Clinical psychologist John F. Schumaker asks if modern consumer society is too shallow to deal with the deepening crises facing the planet.
John F. Schumaker · 1,824 views · 4.9 stars
The well-intentioned drive among white progressives to “check their privilege” or “take responsibility” for their unconscious biases won’t do much to fight racism. But forging real solidarity through concrete campaigns, protests, and movements can.
Hadas Thier · 6,068 views · unrated
Bias training, body cameras, community dialogues – Minneapolis has tried them all. We need a better response
Alex S Vitale · 11,638 views · 5 stars
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.” ~Margaret Mead
Sofo Archon · 7,916 views · 5 stars
To be normal is to be sick
Sofo Archon · 60,048 views · 4.9 stars
It was something I heard one dissident professor say when I was an undergraduate studying psychology in a Nigerian university. He didn’t quite say it; he whispered it. When the white men came, they brought us schools and the bible, he intoned. And then we gave them our own...
Bayo Akomolafe · 810 views · unrated
Romantic love in Western societies is often portrayed in a stereotypical way: two yearning halves, who search for each other to find their complete, original state. Few find this bliss because it’s a myth, dating back to Plato. In Greek mythology, the perfect lovers were...
Susanne Vosmer · 27,508 views · 4 stars
Why should plagues of mental illness surprise us, in a world being ripped apart?
George Monbiot · 12,607 views · 4.8 stars
What is the Way Out?
Dieter Duhm · 8,370 views · 4 stars
Are you passionate about the work that you do? What are you doing to maintain that? Being in action for the causes you are passionate about demands a lot and feeling burnt out at times is a normal reaction. Understand that experience as your innermost self calling you to tune...
Sofia Marbach · 1,339 views · unrated
Contesting power isn’t a hobby or a subculture—it’s a collective project pervading all facets of our lives.
Jonathan Matthew Smucker · 4,385 views · 5 stars
It astonishes me how much we seem to know about aliens. They build technology-driven civilisations and pilot spaceships across the galaxy. They create energy-harvesting structures around their stars. They beam interstellar greetings to us. We cannot be sure that, when our own...
Philip Ball · 834 views · unrated
Ethnic Notions is Marlon Riggs' Emmy-winning documentary that takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history, tracing for the first time the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice. Through these images we can begin to understand the...
5 min · 4,070 views · 4.8 stars
One things that crops up over and over when someone on the libertarian right notices the outright hostility of anarchists when he appropriates the “Anarchist” label for himself is the accusation of “harming the movement” by not being willing to look past differences and work...
A Division by Zer0 · 4,527 views · 2.8 stars
When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police
Carol Anderson · 4,710 views · 5 stars
The story of a KKK leader’s transformation shows us that we need not live forever with the kind of violence we saw in Charleston this month.
Araz Hachadourian · 6,565 views · 4 stars
“Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” -Carl Jung
Return Yoga · 12,711 views · 4.2 stars
Fascinating new lines of research suggest that we are good people, tolerating bad things.
George Monbiot · 2,950 views · 5 stars
Positive news reporting is often conceived as serving only as light relief or as a trivial distraction from the realities of the world. But as Jodie Jackson explains, there is a growing body of research emerging to suggest that these perceptions are unfounded
Jodie Jackson · 595 views · 3.5 stars
Neoclassical economics has severe flaws. But since the field is captive to the monopolistic money and banking system, it is very difficult for economists who are aware of this to speak up. If they were to speak about the flaws, their careers would be severely limited. ...
Damon Vrabel · 23,783 views · 4.8 stars
All governments lie, as I.F. Stone pointed out, including Israel and Hamas.
Chris Hedges · 14,287 views · 4.9 stars
I recently wrote about geoengineering as a strategy to deal with climate change and carbon dioxide emissions. That drew comments from people who confuse this scientific process with the unscientific theory of “chemtrails.” Some also claimed the column supported
David Suzuki · 12,116 views · 2.8 stars
The sacred naturalist’s guide to well-being
Alice Andrews · 8,951 views · 5 stars
The Right wants you to believe that a coddled, overly sensitive left is propping up cancel culture. But punitive, hyper-surveillant ways of interacting online are built into the structure of privately owned social media companies, and they’re practiced across the political...
Ben Burgis · 5,786 views · 5 stars
The greatest conspiracies are open and notorious — not theories, but practices expressed through law and policy, technology, and finance. Counterintuitively, these conspiracies are more often than not announced in public and with a modicum of pride. They’re dutifully reported...
Edward Snowden · 3,735 views · unrated
(This essay is the final installment of a series. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,
Charles Eisenstein · 4,951 views · 4 stars
During the past 35 years I have used prisons and prison mental hospitals as "laboratories" in which to investigate the causes and prevention of the various forms of violence and the relationships between these forms and to what I will call (with a nod to William James) "the...
James Gilligan · 13,979 views · 5 stars
"I remember the first time that a grading rubric was attached to a piece of my writing….Suddenly all the joy was taken away. I was writing for a grade -- I was no longer exploring for me. I want to get that back. Will I ever get that back?"-- Claire, a student (in Olson...
Alfie Kohn · 13,257 views · 5 stars
When it comes to competition, we Americans typically recognize only two legitimate positions: enthusiastic support and qualified support.
The first view holds that the more we immerse our children (and ourselves) in rivalry, the better. Competition builds character and...
Alfie Kohn · 10,391 views · unrated
Intro: Tragedy, Violence and Bourgeois Discourse
Red Phoenix · 3,408 views · 5 stars
Sometimes I feel nostalgic for the cultural mythology of my youth, a world in which there was nothing wrong with soda pop, in which the super Bowl was important, in which America was bringing democracy to the world, in which the doctor could fix you, in which science was...
Charles Eisenstein · 44,066 views · 5 stars
Among other things, whiteness is a kind of solipsism. From right to left, whites consistently and successfully reroute every political discussion to their identity. The content of this identity, unsurprisingly, is left unexamined and undefined. It is the false foundation of...
Asad Haider · 5,422 views · 4 stars
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
Mark Wolynn · 170,875 views · 4 stars
There’s something fascinating about stories that recount a major change of heart. Like the one of C.P. Ellis, a White member of the KKK, and Ann Atwater, a Black community activist, who in 1971 were thrown together as co-chairs of a group focused on school desegregation in...
Amanda Abrams · 555 views · unrated
Despite years of effort and sacrifice by millions, there has not been a mass shift toward nonviolence. Perhaps what's needed is a better understanding of the dark side of the human species.
Brian Martin · 1,252 views · 3 stars
"All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given." - Joanna Macy
Dahr Jamail · 12,049 views · unrated
If you have a pension, or a string of ISAs, then you are watching – for the second time in a decade – your wealth destroyed. European stock markets are now 20 per cent off their peak in the middle of last year.
Paul Mason · 7,184 views · 4.8 stars
He was 12, playing with a toy gun, in a locale with open-carry laws. Tamir Rice was executed for being a black boy
Chauncey Devega · 2,082 views · 4.5 stars
What can doctors do to ease emotional pain? The physicians of ancient and medieval times found many plants and plant-derived substances (ie, drugs) that soothed mental as well as physical ills. Rarely did they draw a line between the psychological and physiological benefits...
Marc Lewis and Shaun Shelly · 19,272 views · unrated
For major protests today, it is standard to have a media strategy. For example, there can be individuals assigned to media liaison. The location and timing of an action can be chosen with an eye toward media schedules. Some actions are designed specifically to attract media...
Brian Martin · 1,911 views · unrated
What economic system designs, out of all conceivable ones, might be among the best at helping us meet real needs?
John Boik, PhD · 558 views · 4 stars
Qualities like gender, ethnicity, and nationality tend to define us more than being human. What happens when we try to identify with all of humanity?
Juliana Breines · 3,832 views · 5 stars
Positive thinking may be useless or even damaging, but negative thinking is unlikely to change the world for the better.
Alessandra Pigni · 8,164 views · 5 stars
One psychologist argues that we should consider people with ADHD to be highly imaginative people rather than people with a learning disability.
Angus Chen and Mythili Rao · 39,597 views · 4.5 stars
On the heels of the open letter signed by over 1,400 sociologists in the wake of the police killing of unarmed black teen Michael Brown, the newly formed group Sociologists for Justice has released a list of published research that inf
Nicki Lisa Cole · 2,625 views · 5 stars
Does talking about racism perpetuate racism?
5 min · 3,098 views · 4.7 stars
A lot of people reacted to my comment on Facebook the other day that greed is more a symptom than a cause of our current system, with all its inequities. I’m asked, What is the cause of greed? First I’ll say what I think greed is: Greed is the insatiabl
Charles Eisenstein · 74,347 views · 4.8 stars
I founded Tiny Spark
Amy Costello · 2,074 views · 5 stars
Most of us will experience a mental health difficulty like depression, anxiety or addiction during our lives. And at some point, most of us will have a friend or family member who is mentally unwell.
Meg John Barker · 37,624 views · 4.2 stars
It’s time we put economics into some sort of physical scientific context that makes sense.
Richard Register · 5,405 views · unrated
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination.
Bruce E. Levine · 1,142,836 views · 4.6 stars
McMindfulness is the new capitalist spirituality.
Ronald Purser · 3,232 views · 5 stars