Peter Ellerton is affiliated with the Rationalist Society of Australia. Read about the event elsewhere and it turns out the athlete was also beaten by thousands of people and it was a participation ...

Cognitive distortions, or thinking errors, can take a toll on our mental health. Here are five such thinking patterns and ways to overcome them. We are all vulnerable to certain “thinking errors,” ...

There’s a pervasive crime being committed in the business world: the fetishization of doing, at the expense of thinking. From meetings to deadlines to notifications to obligations, everybody is ...

The pace of change is accelerating across nearly every facet of society—technology, culture, economics, and even how we think about ourselves. In this rapidly evolving landscape, learning new skills ...

Over the years, I’ve observed that there are two main modes of thinking in the business world: artful thinking and magical thinking. The two are opposites. I believe that artful thinking is key to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...