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Jan Buchczik The Hidden Link Between Workaholism and Mental Health
Long hours on the job can temporarily ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety. But you’re better off leaving the office and facing your feelings head-on.
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Jan Buchczik Nothing Drains You Like Mixed Emotions
Feeling conflicted can be even more distressing than feeling bad. Here’s how to manage it.
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Jan Buchczik How We Learned to Be Lonely
In the early days of the pandemic, many of us got used to solitude. It’s a habit we need to break.
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Jan Buchczik How to Make the Most of Bad Gifts
Presents are generally terrible, but they can still bring you joy.
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Jan Buchczik Breakups Always Hurt, but You Can Shorten the Suffering
Three steps to get over your ex
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Jan Buchczik Does Overindulgence Make You Happy?
Why we binge as a way of celebrating.
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Jan Buchczik Meetings Are Miserable
One of the most straightforward paths to happiness at work is to fight against the scourge of time-consuming, unproductive meetings at every opportunity.
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Nathan Howard / Getty America Is Pursuing Happiness in All the Wrong Places
The U.S. is undergoing a crisis of our personal and shared sense of meaning as polarization rises and institutions erode. The solution is as simple as it is difficult: Love one another.
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Getty / The Atlantic A New Formula for Happiness
The happiness we seek can require investing earlier than we think—and may help us align our expectations and reality at the end of life.
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Jan Buchczik Marriage Is a Team Sport
Approach disagreements with your partner not as a “me,” but as a “we.”
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Getty / The Atlantic The Right Choices in Parenting
When parents avoid the complexities of independent decision making, they may fail to understand where analysis remains crucial.
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Jan Buchczik How to Love People Who Love Conspiracies
Fighting over the facts is unlikely to convince anyone.
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Getty / The Atlantic Subtraction as a Solution
Subtraction can be an overlooked solution in a culture of accumulation. But having less can create the space we didn’t know we needed.
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Jan Buchczik How to Make Life More Transcendent
Even if you’re not religious
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Getty / The Atlantic How to Spend Time on What You Value
We use our time to race against the clock of productivity—which may be the one thing that holds us back from enjoying the free time we crave.
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Jan Buchczik Envy, the Happiness Killer
Eradicating this ugly emotion entirely would be impossible, but we can stop fueling it with our behavior.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Complexities of Human Love
Tech may not be responsible for all the woes of modern love and human connection—but it may reflect our innate desire to find simple solutions to complex problems.
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Jan Buchczik If You Want Success, Pursue Happiness
Many people chase achievement, assuming it will lead to well-being. They should reverse that order of operations.
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Getty / The Atlantic When Virtues Become Vices
When addictive behaviors override our desires, it may be a sign to investigate the gap between what we crave and what’s really good for us.
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Jan Buchczik Why We Do Things We Know We’ll Regret
Our instincts often steer us to love things and use people. We need to do the opposite.
