Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Know thyself is the most famous maxim of Greek philosophy, carved into stone on the Temple of ...

Self-compassion reduces our feelings of shame and self-doubt. We explore a practice to help quiet our inner critic with kindness. Description: Self-compassion reduces our feelings of shame and ...

Nearly every highly successful person has failed, most of them numerous times. Most have failed a lot more often than the rest of us. That’s one of the reasons they’re successful now. Failure, viewed ...

A recent paper in Current Opinion in Psychology by Thielmann and Burghart explores the limits of self-knowledge, why it matters, and how we can strengthen self-awareness. In this article, I discuss ...