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Student Notebook: Using Self-Regulation to Balance Commitments
“Understanding your goals, your motivation, and the tools available to you are key to handling everything on your plate,” writes doctoral student Beth Anne Hosek.
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Can’t Stop Overthinking?
Overthinking might not strike you as a strenuous activity. You don’t have to move a muscle to spend hours imagining worst-case scenarios, debating choices or playing the day’s headlines on a loop. And yet, running
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For 2026, There’s a Better Way to Be Hopeful
As we look ahead to the new year, hope seems to be in short supply. Recent surveys have found that sizable majorities of Americans believed the United States was on track to become economically weaker and more
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Hope in a Time of Cynicism
America has become a country of cynics. At least, that’s what studies show. People don’t trust each other, the media or the government. Most Americans, about 80 percent, don’t feel confident their children’s lives will be better than theirs.
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A Better Way to Think About New Year’s Resolutions
… In the long run, resolutions that keep others in mind tend to have greater staying power. Studies have found that brute willpower alone lasts for only so long, and that people have a much harder
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A Better Way to Think About New Year’s Resolutions
… In the long run, resolutions that keep others in mind tend to have greater staying power. Studies have found that brute willpower alone lasts for only so long, and that people have a much harder
