The best art makes us question the received ideas we’ve internalized and, just maybe, offers us ideas for living differently.
Author: Melissa Kirsch
Memory Palace
Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of art that you love and letting it live and bloom inside of you.
Brain Trust
Fan gatherings present opportunities to geek out with fellow enthusiasts. Can we cultivate some of that energy in everyday life?
Works of Art
Creating rules around the content we consume can help calm our overtaxed brains and manage our moods.
Breaking Through
Icebreakers are corny, corporate get-to-know-you exercises. But there’s something thrilling in dispensing with small talk.
Spring Awakening
Being new at something isn’t always pleasant, but beyond the discomfort, rewards await.
Social Distance
On the five-year anniversary of Covid, a look at the ways we vowed our lives and relationships would change afterward — and how they still might.
Lightening Up
Daylight saving time begins tomorrow, and the days are getting lighter and more expansive. If we want to, we can, too.
Lost Causes
When we lose things, it’s tempting to think we need to keep better track of them, to hold on to stuff more tightly. What if the opposite is true?
Love Letters
Mail and phone calls may be archaic, but they have lessons for us on how to be better communicators.