Fwd: “Why Boredom Is So Powerful in Your Life” published in Personal Growth

Stories for Pablo Mera

Today's highlights Why Boredom Is So Powerful in Your Life Embrace the pain of your unused potential Gustavo Razzetti in Personal Growth6 min read Your Ability to Focus Has Probably Peaked: Here's How to Stay Sharp Having a hard time focusing lately? You're not alone. Research shows interruptions occur about every twelve… Nir Eyal in Better Humans6 min read Why So Many Americans Are Turning to Buddhism The ancient Eastern religion is helping Westerners with very modern mental-health problems Olga Khazan in The Atlantic10 min read How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Former Insider Where does technology exploit our minds' weaknesses? Tristan Harris in Thrive Global16 min read Based on your reading history Putting Real Energy into a Lesson About Energy This weekend I worked on a lesson about energy and more specifically the different forms of energy that… Katy Wellington6 min read Free speech and free press go hand in hand — and both are under threat we are slowly but surely fostering a culture of intolerance, in which dissenting voices can be arbitrarily… Jason Reed5 min read Alzheimer's Drug Failure — Ending Biotech's Disastrous Love Affair with… Last week another potential blockbuster Alzheimer's drug has failed and two late Phase 3 clinical trials have… Shen Lin3 min read Best in Psychedelics When Therapists Get Together to Talk About Our Patients Talking to colleagues helps us reexamine not just our patients, but ourselves in relation to our patients Lori Gottlieb11 min read DMT Is the Drug for Our Collective Crisis of Meaning It's increasingly popular and there's a good reason why Zoe Cormier8 min read I Wish I Could Keep Microdosing LSD If the drug were legal, I'd be first in line Ayelet Waldman6 min read Best in Money Earnin Promises Easy Cash, But It's a Security Nightmare Waiting to Happen The popular payday loan app may not do enough to protect users Sage Lazzaro6 min read 8 Money Experts on How to Curb an Online Shopping Habit Tips for getting the urge to buy under control Anna Goldfarb5 min read The New Rules of Personal Finance In today's economy, some of the old pieces of financial wisdom aren't as helpful as they used to be Kristin Wong8 min read Best in Cryptocurrency Coin Talk #29: ⚰️ R.I.P. SUMOKOIN Aaron buries his first love $SUMO and Jay considers whether the whole universe is a money laundering scheme Coin Talk38 min read Remember, Bitcoin Is Just a Game Writer JP Koning on why bitcoin is more lottery than investment JP Koning7 min read Crypto for President 2020! Embracing Blockchain at the Libertarian Convention They were ahead of the mainstream parties on same-sex marriage and marijuana — and now they're betting on… Mark Yarm13 min read Best in Philosophy Steven Pinker on the Past, Present, and Future of Optimism The legendary scientist argues that things are getting better, not worse. If only he could get the world to… Darryn King12 min read Applause from Medium Staff The Best (Secular) Self-Help Program You've Never Heard Of It has to do with changing your self image Mitch Horowitz5 min read The Suicide Wave Philosopher William James had a solution Mitch Horowitz6 min read Most read What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider's Retrospective "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." — Steven Wright. Ben Fathi14 min read The Poor Can't Afford Not to Wear Nice Clothes Why do disadvantaged people spend money on status symbols? For the same reason we all do. Tressie McMillan Cottom9 min read We're in a Crisis of the Heart Lessons from the Buddhist scholar who brought meditation to the West Jack Kornfield9 min read Editors' picks The Barely Hidden Flaws in Jordan Peterson's Scholarship His interpretation of a Babylonian creation myth is contradicted by the very scholars he cites as sources Emily Pothast13 min read You Could Have Today. Instead You Choose Tomorrow. It's time to stop living for the weekend Ryan Holiday6 min read Make this email better. Tailor your topics

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