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The Atlantic Changing Your Mind Can Make You Less Anxious Humans are programmed to think we’re right at all costs. Fighting that instinct will set you free. ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the psychologist Henry Murray asked a sample of college sophomores to participate in a seemingly innocuous experiment in which they would write their “personal philosophy of life,” including their core values and guiding principles, and then engage in a civil debate with a young lawyer about the merits of the phil...

The Atlantic ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. For years, I was haunted by a fear of failure. I spent my early adulthood as a professional French hornist, playing in chamber-music ensembles and orchestras. Classical music is a perilous business, relying on absolute precision. Playing the French horn, prone as it is to missing notes, is a virtual high-wire act in every concert. I could go from hero to goat within a few mistakes during a solo. I lived in dread, and it made my life and work misery. Fear of failure is not just a problem for Fren...

The Atlantic Voluntarily sacrificing pleasurable things resets your senses and makes you master of yourself. ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. We have just entered the season of Lent, a time to pray and fast to commemorate Jesus’s 40-day sojourn into the desert at the beginning of his public ministry. About a quarter of Americans—including 61 percent of Catholics—typically observe Lent through voluntary sacrifice, fasting, almsgiving, and prayer. Many religions have similar ascetic traditions, such as Yom Kippur in Judaism and Ramadan ...

Dear Constituents, I was very excited to welcome our Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole to Northern Ontario for his virtual tour of the region on Friday. Erin O’Toole met virtually with a wide variety of business and community leaders from across Northern Ontario, discussing how to create opportunities in the region and secure Canada’s future. Ending Boil Water Advisories February 1st marked twenty-six years of the boil water advisory in Neskantaga First Nation. I made a statement in the House of Commons calling on the government to honour their commitments to provide clean water for a...

Markets and politics again. another day in the life of u.s. congress. stan as i've been telling you is an expert on the federal budget and one of the few people who worked on the staffs of the house and senate budget. for years he wrote the guy and currently director of financial communications, still writes a great weekly column. stand joins me now. stan, you paint add bleak picture, which is why i wanted to bring you on. it was a picture based in reality. explain the inertia factor basically a couple months at a time. >> the biggest thing -- by the way, good to see you again. it works for a ...