Why Some People Never Seem to Lose Their Cool (It’s Not Genetics)
We’ve all got someone in our lives who makes life look deceptively easy. You recognize who I’m talking about. The family dinner is on the […]
We’ve all got someone in our lives who makes life look deceptively easy. You recognize who I’m talking about. The family dinner is on the […]
Think back to something you badly wanted. A particular job, maybe. A flat in a decent neighbourhood. A phone you’d been eyeing for months, or […]
My friend Priya once spent eleven days deciding whether to text her ex back. Not eleven days of peace. Eleven days of walking the identical […]
The last truly hard decision I watched someone make took forty-three days. My aunt had been offered a job in another city — better pay, […]
There’s a specific kind of bad feeling that hits at around 11 pm on a Tuesday. You’re lying in bed; there’s nothing particularly wrong with […]
Something no one tells you about being hurt by a person: the toughest element isn’t always the instant it happens. It’s the Tuesday afternoon 3 […]
Let me be honest with you about something. For a long time, I thought I was a good thinker. I journaled. I made lists. I […]
Let me be upfront about something before we get into this. This is not one of those self-help pieces that hands you a numbered list […]
Let’s be sincere for a second. Every year, heaps of shiny, ambitious students walk out of pinnacle commercial-enterprise colleges with a diploma in one hand […]
You know that feeling. It’s past midnight; you are watching the ceiling, and your brain keeps replaying something you said in a meeting three days […]
I first saw a terror bird skull in a museum photo, and I honestly thought it was a mistake. The head looked like it belonged […]
Let’s be brutally honest for a second. Making friends as an adult is absolutely exhausting. You text someone to grab a coffee; they reply three […]
Every year or two, the same video makes the rounds online again. A lioness in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve — an animal that, by every […]
A sixty-two-second film sits in a storage room somewhere. Most people will never see it, let alone go looking for it. It was shot in […]
Nobody warned me about the silence. Not the silence itself — there isn’t any, really — but that particular moment just after sunset when the […]
Someone once told me that the saddest photograph ever taken is not of a war or a famine or a natural disaster. It is a […]