Why the Most Important Subject at University Has No Textbook Yet Every university in the world teaches students how to think about something. The economist learns to think about markets. The engineer learns to think about systems. The physician learns to think about the body. The philosopher learns to think about arguments. These are not trivial accomplishments. They represent centuries of accumulated insight, encoded into curricula, tested through...
From Burnout to Belonging: What Indian Students Actually Need From Their Universities There is a particular silence that falls over an examination hall in India that you do not encounter in quite the same way anywhere else in the world. It is not merely the silence of concentration. It is the silence of something larger and heavier — the accumulated weight of family expectation, of years of preparation,...
Buddhism Predicted the Attention Crisis. Here’s What It Prescribed. Somewhere in the fifth century BCE, a wandering teacher sitting beneath a fig tree in what is now the Indian state of Bihar identified the restless, grasping, perpetually distracted quality of the human mind as the central problem of human existence. He called it monkey mind — kapicitta — and he spent the next forty-five years of his life...
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...
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