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Tag: emotional intelligence

Attachment Style Isn’t Destiny

Our past experiences do shape our relationships. But we’re not doomed to repeat unhealthy patterns forever.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings February 17, 2023 1 Minute

A Popular—And Misunderstood—Theory of Relationships

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Allen Bingham Meanderings February 17, 2023 1 Minute

Nothing Drains You Like Mixed Emotions

Feeling conflicted can be even more distressing than feeling bad. Here’s how to manage it. “How to Build a Life” is a column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings January 26, 2023 1 Minute

The Everlasting Wonder of Being: How a Cold Cosmos Kindles the Glow of Consciousness

In his poetic ode to the wonder of life, the physicist Richard Feynman gasped at our improbable inheritance as “atoms with consciousness” — a lovely phrase that in so few words intimates the immense superstructure of matter and meaning, the way in which the austere realities of the physical un

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Allen Bingham Meanderings September 11, 2022 1 Minute

The Power of the Bittersweet: Susan Cain on Longing as the Fulcrum of Creativity

“Oh, there must be a little bit of air, a little bit of happiness… to let the form be felt… but let the whole be sombre,” Van Gogh wrote to his brother as he exulted in the beauty of sorrow — not in that wallowing way some have of making an identity of their suffering, not in the way our c

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Allen Bingham Meanderings June 12, 2022 1 Minute

Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Restrings the Brain

“Lights and shadows are continually flitting across my inward sky, and I know neither whence they come nor whither they go; nor do I inquire too closely into them,” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in his notebook one spring day in 1840. “It is dangerous to look too minutely into such phenomena.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings December 6, 2021 1 Minute

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