Talking to yourself seems to yield real benefits, from boosts in cognitive performance to improved emotional regulation.
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A new study suggests that depressed people may prefer a Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan song to one from The Beach Boys or One Direction.
Does the voice in your head castigate the voice coming out of a recording device?
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
Next time you listen to scary campfire stories, sit with a friend who has aphantasia.
A 12-year study shows that these large lemurs have a sophisticated sense of rhythm.
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
A recent study suggests that exposure to visual stimuli can diminish the effects of psychedelic drugs.
Boardroom veteran David Roche offers key strategies that can lay the groundwork for CEO success.
Executive advisor Tiffani Bova wants leaders to value their employees as much as their customers.
Whether you’re a leader looking to ramp up team output or just trying to improve your skill set, hard work alone is not enough.
“In order to seek truth,” Rene Descartes once wrote, “it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
The author of ‘How We Read’ Now explains.
Analog could serve as “always-on” computing, while digital is turned on only when necessary.
The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant’s pain.
When the going gets tough, nothing beats a wide network of tried-and-true connections.
Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K448) can help reduce seizures in epilepsy patients.
Awareness of one’s own heartbeat has some positive effects.
AI tried to write music. It wasn’t exactly The Beatles.
We’ve made god-like figures out of hard-charging CEOs — but it’s a bad idea to get high on your own supply.
The amygdala can hijack your brain’s response if it recognizes past trauma in a current situation. To regain control, simply press pause.
Neuroscientist Tali Sharot recently spoke with Big Think about a two-step method for escaping the dark sides of habits.
“Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics.”
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
Parity tasks (such as odd and even categorisation) are considered abstract and high-level numerical concepts in humans.
Nero’s reputation as one of the most malevolent emperors in Roman history might be partly slander.
Some of the weirdest characters in Greek mythology were Athenian kings.
Seattle slowly raised its minimum wage to $15 per hour. The results provide fuel for both sides of the minimum wage debate.