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Mind & Behavior
Study the science of how we think, feel, and act, with insights that help you better understand yourself and others.
Curiosity is often considered a personality quirk. Neuroscience paints a different picture.
12mins
“The very same time that’s making you anxious is actually your most valuable asset. You can always create more energy and more money—but you can never create more time.”
Nurture your passions instead.
A.J. Jacobs looks back at what he learned about religion, himself, and modern American culture during “The Year of Living Biblically.”
In nature, business, and life, survival doesn’t belong to the optimized — it belongs to those with a built-in buffer.
5mins
"I think happiness is not a smiling face, it's more a smiling soul."
Want to know how to handle work-life pressure? Big Think asked Warfare co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza.
Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.
Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.
14mins
"Being aware of your mindsets is the difference between living a conscious life, where you're making choices in accord with what you actually want and going where you actually wanna go, versus being on autopilot and having those mindsets subconsciously drive all of your decisions."
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
"Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language."
Barry Ritholtz — market commentator, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and podcast host — shares what really trips investors up.
Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.
11mins
"These days, no national news network is trusted by more than half of American adults. And that's a problem."
32mins
"Plato would argue that sex in and of itself is not what true love is. Sex can reach a point where you are in union with that person, where you see behind their appearances and you see behind the flesh and you experience something which is more transcendental."
A look inside Mindstate Design Labs' effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.
What can drugs teach us about consciousness?
8mins
How the 40-year-old entrepreneur and media mogul learned from his struggles, and why he believes accountability is the real secret to happiness.
Unlikely Collaborators