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Research suggests the generation that grew up in the 1960s and 70s wasn't hardened by trauma so much as tempered by ordinary difficulty??? the kind of low-level, unmanaged adversity that modern safety culture has almost completely removed from childhood
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (796+ words) Daniel Moran is a writer at Silicon Canals covering technology, psychology, and culture. My uncle fell out of a mango tree at nine and broke his arm in two places. Nobody sued the tree. There was no incident report, no…...
Becoming a close friend takes more than 200 hours together, according to University of Kansas research??? and simply working beside someone does surprisingly little of the job. The hours that really predict closeness are the ones people voluntarily choose to spend together.
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (1345+ words) Edited by Lachlan Brown University of Kansas research suggests close friendship takes more than 200 hours, with voluntarily chosen leisure time carrying more weight than obligatory contact at work. Two colleagues can sit within a few metres of each other for…...
A meta-analysis of 138 experiments found that tracking progress significantly improves goal achievement??? and the effect becomes stronger when that progress is recorded or made visible to someone else. Sometimes the simplest productivity system is anoth
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (1086+ words) Edited by Lachlan Brown A review of 138 randomised studies found that progress monitoring improved goal attainment, especially when results were recorded and reported. Goals usually begin in the future tense: finish the proposal, save the deposit, train three times a…...
Across 42 countries and 17,409 parents, the strongest predictor of parental burnout was not income, inequality or hours of childcare but how individualistic the culture was, with Poland and Belgium highest and Thailand and Cuba lowest
1+ week, 1+ day ago (989+ words) Western cultures that prize independence over interdependence leave parents uniquely depleted, suggesting the problem may lie less in what parents do than in the societies they inhabit. The premise is that the knowledge is already there and the energy is…...
In 55 improvisation classes at The Second City, students told that their goal was to feel awkward held their focus longer and took more risks than students given the standard instruction, which is a different thing from learning to tolerate discomfort
1+ week, 1+ day ago (869+ words) Edited by Graeme Brown A simple reframing—pursue discomfort rather than endure it—fundamentally changes how people engage with challenging tasks, new research shows. Most advice about getting comfortable with discomfort is really advice about endurance. Tolerate the bad feeling,…...
Psychology says people who tend to minimise their own pain??? saying 'it's fine' or 'it wasn't that bad'??? aren't resilient, they're often repeating what they were told, implicitly or plainly, every time they tried to say otherwise
1+ week, 2+ day ago (837+ words) Daniel Moran is a writer at Silicon Canals covering technology, psychology, and culture. What we call resilience is often just learned silence—the echo of people who told us our pain didn't matter. A cook I worked with once put…...
Two separate 2023 studies on screen use point to different patterns entirely??? one driven by simple habit and largely harmless, the other tied to distress and linked to worse sleep and higher odds of anxiety
1+ week, 4+ day ago (220+ words) Edited by Nato Lagidze The rise in screen time masks a crucial distinction: some phone checking is mindless habit, while other patterns signal genuine psychological distress with real health consequences. None of the three studies above explain why a phone…...
True class has less to do with polish, status or knowing the right etiquette than with how someone protects another person's dignity when there is nothing to gain
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1031+ words) Lachlan Brown is a writer at Silicon Canals contributing across the Mind pillar. The measure of class isn't revealed in ballrooms or boardrooms—it's who you remain kind to when nobody's watching and it costs you nothing. True class is…...
The philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 1600s that all of humanity's problems stem from the inability to sit quietly in a room alone, and three centuries of psychology research has done little to contradict him
1+ week, 6+ day ago (599+ words) Edited by Jeanette Brown We've built an entire philosophy of solitude on a misquoted line and dubious science. The line turns up in productivity books, meditation apps, digital detox essays and roughly every third talk about attention. It is a…...
Childhood trauma really is one of the most common roots of family estrangement, but the research complicates the sentence in an important way: the cut-off is usually less a wound than a considered, last-resort decision that people rarely make lightly
2+ week, 16+ hour ago (601+ words) Edited by Graeme Brown When adult children cut off parents, it rarely springs from impulse—it's the exhausted conclusion of a calculation most people spend years refusing to make. We are writers, not clinicians, and what follows is a reading…...