Outward Action Is Good for Your Brain
This article was originally published in Discourse Magazine. We can help solve our mental health crisis by getting out of our own heads Beyond a given point man is not helped by more “knowing,” but only by living and doing in a partly self-forgetful way. As Goethe put...
Mental-Health Awareness Can Be Bad for Mental Health
This article was originally published in the Wall Street Journal. Rather than ruminating, turn outward and engage with the world. We hear a lot about America’s mental-health crisis, and the crisis is real. But part of the problem is that we talk about it too...
High Anxiety, Low Abundance
This article was originally published in Discourse Magazine. America is becoming a nation of anxious people. Psychologists point to the rapid rise in anxiety, especially among teenagers and young adults, as evidence that our country is facing a mental health crisis....
