Why has the ‘learning styles’ theory persisted without any evidence? And what do we actually know about how we learn?

In my therapy office, I’ve found that to live with greater purpose, we must think differently about where it comes from ...

As a schoolboy in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, my hands were almost never clean. Don’t get me wrong – I washed them as much as anyone else. But the school rules made us practise our penmanship in ink, ...

Aphantasia veils the past and the future from the mind’s eye. That can be a gift to philosophers like Derek Parfit and me There’s an early memory from my childhood, representative of its peak ...

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The urge to do everything faster and better is risky. Far wiser to do what’s good enough for the range of possible futures Self-help books are a broken parachute: to win friends and influence people, ...

For millennia, and all over the world, people have actively cultivated a relationship with death as an important part of a life well lived. One way they have done so is through the use of memento mori ...

For aphantasic artists with no mind’s eye, creating paintings is a way to experience the mental pictures they can’t see In the early 2000s, I encountered a patient who had lost his previously active ...

I brought my newborn to visit a hospice patient. It took me far from what I’d thought medicine was ...

Have you ever experienced a space that made you feel uneasy or stressed? Perhaps it was a noisy and crowded shopping mall, with its neon signs, patterned tilework and boldly painted walls in franchise ...

Downtime is undervalued in today’s busy, always-on world. But for most of human history, rest – time in which we can recharge the mental and physical batteries we use while labouring – was prized as a ...