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The Problem With Mindfulness Apps: What They Get Right, What They Miss, and What Actually Works Somewhere between the third and fourth minute of a guided breathing exercise on a popular wellness app, delivered in the kind of voice that suggests a person who has never experienced an urgent email, a thought tends to arrive: is this actually doing anything? It is a reasonable question. The mindfulness app...

How to Raise Happy Children in an Age of Anxiety: What the Evidence Actually Shows Every generation of parents believes, with some justification, that their children face particular dangers. The dangers change; the parental anxiety does not. But something about the present moment in childhood feels different to researchers who study it — not because children have become more fragile, but because the evidence now clearly shows that...

The Entrepreneur’s Emotional Survival Guide: Happiness Habits for High-Stakes Lives There is a particular kind of exhaustion that no one warns you about when you decide to build something from nothing. It is not the exhaustion of long hours, though those arrive reliably enough. It is something quieter and more corrosive — the accumulated weight of carrying decisions that only you can make, of sustaining belief in an...