experience

Image depicting psychological richness. Each experience colours who we becomes. Image shows different people holding a different colour of rope, and they all wind into a single multi-coloured rope

Why a Good Life Doesn’t Always Have to Be a Happy Life

A difficult journey, challenging book, unexpected conversation or experience that changes how we see something might enrich our life without necessarily making us happier in the moment.

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Illustration of slow down. Man in suit lying back against a giant hourglass taking a nap, with his papers and folders in a pile beside him. Set against a blue sky.

Try Doing One Thing 25% More Slowly

The opposite of rushing isn’t wasting time. It’s experiencing it. The faster we move through an experience, the less opportunity our brains have to notice it fully.

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Cartoon of woman walking across a blue sky by stepping on three floating lightbulbs. Two bulbs are yellow and one is grey. Moving from the left, she's currently stepping from the grey one, which is smaller, onto a larger yellow one in the middle, and there's an even larger yellow one on the right, which would be her next step.

Why Expectations Change Experience… and How to Change Yours

Expectation shapes perception across many domains – from taste and pain to performance and wellbeing. Here’s the science and some ways to work with your own expectation.

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Is consciousness inside your head or is the world inside consciousness?

Have you ever been in love? Do you recall what it feels like? What about…

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