Balance
Wellbeing
Evidence-minded writing on rest, health, and the Nordic approach to a good life.
- Aug 5, 2026 A 2026 study of 1,834 people found a genuinely unusual personality is usually driven by extreme individual traits, but… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 The friendships that survive into someone's fifties tend to share one unglamorous quality By The Balance
- Aug 5, 2026 Psychology says people who often research self-improvement but rarely start may not be lazy By Brendan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 A psychologist at the University of Texas handed students a blank sheet of paper and fifteen minutes a day, four days… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 5, 2026 Psychology says people who apologize for things that aren't their fault aren't insecure, they're operating from a… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 A 1994 study found that when people looked back over years rather than days, regret over things they had not done… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 5, 2026 Psychology explains people who grew up in the 1960s aren't just tougher By Brendan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 Psychology says adults who have no close friends aren't necessarily antisocial or unlikable By Brendan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 Study after study on friendship after 60 points to the same finding By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 Cornell gerontologist Karl Pillemer spent years interviewing more than 1,500 Americans over 60 about their biggest… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 Researchers compared 22 major lottery winners with ordinary people and found the winners were no happier, while also… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 Adult children who stay genuinely close to their parents over decades often say it wasn't grand gestures that kept them… By Brendan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 Adults without children aren't avoiding attachment By Brendan Brown
- Aug 5, 2026 Studies on wellbeing in later life have found that one of the deepest sources of joy has nothing to do with being… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 5, 2026 Psychology says the loneliest part of getting older isn't the isolation, it's discovering that being surrounded and… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 5, 2026 Psychology says people who prefer solitude over constant socializing tend to have made peace with a quiet that would… By Daniel Moran