We might assume that people are either interesting or boring by nature. Far from it, being boring to others is …
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How to Become Someone People Will Confide In
We’d perhaps all like to be the sort of person that our friends feel they can confide in when they …
Why It’s Useful to Think of Yourself As a Sinner
We’re generally taught nowadays to think very well of ourselves – and look with horror at religions’ suggestions that we …
A Film Never to Show Children
The stories we like to tell children about life tend to be sunny, sweet and optimistic. But such stories are …
How Much Does Luck Decide Our Lives?
Believing that many of the big things in our lives come down to luck is, in a way, a rather …
What to Do If You Hate Small Talk
One of the reasons many of us find social encounters difficult is that they force into that particular conversational byway …
Why We’re Not the Centre of the Show
A lot of our melodrama and self-pity comes from seeing ourselves, as a species, as standing at the center of …
How to Stop Worrying Whether or Not They Like You
We spend an inordinate amount of time concentrating on the question of whether or not we are liked. It would …