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Aug 13 Psychology says people who overthink small decisions often aren't indecisive at all, they're seeing more possible… Kiran Journals
Aug 13 Hans Christian Andersen: "To travel is to live" Mal James
Aug 13 Thought of the day from Finnish composer Jean Sibelius Mal James
Aug 13 Psychology says people who feel like failures when a new habit isn't automatic by week three aren't lacking discipline The Balance
Aug 13 Jim Morrison told his Doors bandmates to each go write a song for the new album, and handed guitarist Robby Krieger Nato Lagidze
Aug 13 The phrases said to expose someone's poor emotional intelligence share one real feature, they invalidate other people's… Scandinavia Standard
Aug 13 The art of hygge is sold as the secret to Danish happiness, but the research points elsewhere Scandinavia Standard
Aug 13 People who arrive fifteen minutes early to everything aren't anxious, they've usually decided that the small buffer… Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team
Aug 13 The reason many people feel happier after they retire is not simply having more free time Scandinavia Standard
Aug 13 Study after study on nostalgia agrees it isn't the season itself that undoes people every summer Nato Lagidze
Aug 13 The phrases people watch for to spot a self-centred person, the constant I and me, are a poor tell Scandinavia Standard
Aug 13 "Back to the Future" was rejected over 40 times by studios who thought it was too wholesome, and a Universal executive… Brendan Brown
Aug 13 One of the richest men on Earth drove a fifteen-year-old Volvo and flew economy — IKEA's Ingvar Kamprad, whose creed ran Mal James
Aug 13 Billy Joel wrote "Piano Man" about a lounge gig he actually worked in Los Angeles under the fake name Bill Martin… Brendan Brown
Aug 13 The genre of things boomers do that prove they are out of touch rests on two shaky ideas Scandinavia Standard
Aug 13 Thought of the day from Danish author Hans Christian Andersen Mal James
Aug 13 Less than 1 per cent of Swedish municipal waste reaches a landfill, but the country still imported 3.86 million tonnes… Mal James
Aug 12 One in four Americans ate every meal alone in 2023, up 53% in just two decades The Balance
Aug 12 A growing share of travelers now rank a destination's coffee scene above its nightlife or its landmarks, and the reason… Nato Lagidze
Aug 12 In Sweden the word lagom means roughly enough, and children absorb it so early that many Swedish adults describe… The Balance