The pandemic has exacerbated an already troubling trust deficit across political, economic, and other demographic divides. Research shared just before the pandemic’s onset uncovered that millennials are reluctant to trust government, business leaders, corporations, social and mass media, or even traditional social institutions. Meanwhile, a recent Canadian survey found that half of respondents believe business…
After a Year of Zoom Meetings, We’ll Need to Rebuild Trust Through Eye Contact
Why You Should Disable Your Teen’s Smartphone
My teenager just woke up, walked into the kitchen, and said, “Mom, what day is it?” The days are running together, kids are staying up too late, we’re trying to get out of our PJ’s before lunch, we’re eating too much and not exercising enough, and everyone needs a haircut. We’ve lost structure, schedules, and…
How to Turn a Toxic Conflict Into a Good One
We’ve all been there: Locked in a heated argument, blood pressure rising, fixated on our next point rather than actually listening to what the other person has to say. Even after it ends, it doesn’t really end—we keep ruminating on it for hours, days, weeks. This is what journalist Amanda Ripley refers to as “high…
Innocence Lost: Our Children and Pornography
Though I’ve practiced several vices in my time, pornography was not one of them. I grew up in a town and a time when I didn’t even know the meaning of that word. At the private school I attended in seventh and eighth grade, 200 miles from home, one kid used to smuggle Playboy magazines into the…
Escaping the Insufferable Status Quo
In the past decade, my wife, Heather, and I have made some significant changes in our lives. Nine years ago, I stopped practicing law. Eight years ago, we ditched our bricks-and-mortar office and shifted to a virtual business model. Six years ago, we moved our family from a suburb of a large city to a…
Why We Can’t Stop Thinking About the Same Problems
Have you ever noticed how frequently your mind returns to problems and situations that cause you pain, and insists on rehashing what’s wrong? It’s a strange phenomenon really, our addiction to thinking about problems. Even when we don’t want to think about what’s bothering us, still, we keep thinking about it. Why do we do this, and…
Relationship Management
Relationships can be one of the biggest stressors there are, and that’s been highlighted by the pandemic. Whether you’re sharing a one-bedroom apartment with your partner or a four-bedroom house, it can be difficult to avoid stress and carve out space. There is such a thing as spending too much time together, regardless of whether…
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Learning to Cultivate an Anti-Cancer Mindset
Last year, COVID-19 deaths got all the attention. But we’ve lived for decades with a far deadlier killer: cancer. In 2020, cancer claimed more than 600,000 lives in the United States. While that doesn’t reduce the seriousness of 350,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 nationwide, given cancer’s prominence as a COVID-19 comorbidity, it does warrant concern….
Calm a Distressed Mind by Changing Your Environment
One of the biggest contributors to our happiness is something we barely pay attention to: the voice inside our own heads. As psychologist Ethan Kross describes in his new book “Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It,” that voice is constantly analyzing the situations we’re in, reflecting on the…
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