1: Rachel Barr‘s experience at college wasn’t great.

“After a string of unfulfilling jobs left me yearning for more, I ventured into university life a little later than my peers,” she writes in her book How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to a Healthier, Happier Life.

“It was supposed to be a fresh start,” she notes.

It wasn’t.

“Soon into my undergraduate degree, … continue reading

1: Our brains are uncomfortable with the in-betweens.

“Imagine, for a moment, that we are traveling alone on a long-leg airline flight with no onboard Wi-Fi,” Anne-Laure Le Cunff writes in Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World.

“There we are at 30,000 feet, suspended in the sky, transitioning from one place to another, neither here nor there,” she writes. “The places and people who normally … continue reading