Although most people believe that they are self-aware, true self-awareness is a rare quality. In this piece, the author describes a recent large-scale investigation that shed light on some of the biggest roadblocks, myths, and truths about what self-awareness really is — and what it takes to cultivate it. Specifically, the study found that there are actually two distinct types of self-awareness, that experience and power can hinder self-awareness, and that introspection doesn’t always mak...| Harvard Business Review
If the mind is our thoughts, who observes those thoughts? What are we without thoughts? Do we ever truly see an object?| How to Train a Happy Mind
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A guided mediation to embrace impermanence, releasing fear and anxiety to become more fully present to those around us.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, and this mind wandering typically makes them unhappy, according to research by Harvard psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert.| Harvard Gazette