coping
Why Is Life Filled with Suffering? Leo Tolstoy’s Lessons on Failure, Identity, and Asking “Why?”
The big, unknowable questions in life are seductive, but without small, trivial questions as insulation, those large mysteries can consume us.
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Is There a Jerk at Work? Here Are 7 Tips for Staying Sane
Stanford professor Robert Sutton offers a slew of suggestions for how to break up negative vibes in the office.
Hope Isn’t Blind: It’s a Way to Build Trust and Manage Anxiety
Some anxieties are essential, and for millennia they kept our ancestors alive. But there's another type of anxiety that we can actually do away with—and it's defeated via hope.
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A Philosophical Guide to Coping with Life, Death, and Sour Grapes
Can you have hope in the face of death? For believers this is somewhat easier, but non-theists require a different set of philosophical tools.
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Your mind is stronger than the anxiety it creates. Learn to shift your mindset.
Health psychologist Kelly McGonigal discusses a three-step process to shift your mindset when anxiety creeps in.