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Your limit is not where you think: the science of “you can go even further”
Read more →: Your limit is not where you think: the science of “you can go even further”Ayrton Senna said that just beyond the limit we feel, there is still road ahead. Samuele Marcora’s science of perceived effort proves him right: it is often the mind, not the body, that moves the finish line.
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Trying New Things Together: The Science of Self-Expansion That Renews Your Relationship and Family
Read more →: Trying New Things Together: The Science of Self-Expansion That Renews Your Relationship and FamilyThere is a moment, in almost every long relationship, when everything seems to work and yet something has grown a little dimmer. Not a fight, not a crisis: just a routine that keeps repeating itself. The days go by, the conversations become predictable, and you find yourself wondering whether it is normal to feel a…
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The value of your life passes through others: Simone de Beauvoir’s lesson
Read more →: The value of your life passes through others: Simone de Beauvoir’s lessonThere’s a question that visits everyone sooner or later. It usually shows up in the quietest evenings, when the noise of the day dies down: does my life really count for anything? It’s not a question for fragile people. It’s a question for people who are truly alive, brave enough to look inward without turning…
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“Domotizzare”: when the home learns to listen to you
Read more →: “Domotizzare”: when the home learns to listen to youThere is a word that has quietly slipped into our homes in recent years. In Italian it’s domotizzare — “to make a home smart.” We reach for it when the lights switch on by themselves, when the thermostat adjusts the temperature while we’re at work, when we unlock the door from our phone. But where…
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The Male Friendships We Lose While Growing Up
Read more →: The Male Friendships We Lose While Growing UpAs kids, friendships happen almost by accident: a football, a backyard, an afternoon with nothing else to do. Then work, family, and mortgages arrive, and for many men close friends start to feel like something from another life. The numbers tell a real story. According to the AARP Friendship Study, the share of men with…
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I’ve Failed, and That Is Why I Succeed: Michael Jordan’s Lesson
Read more →: I’ve Failed, and That Is Why I Succeed: Michael Jordan’s LessonThere’s a word that scares us more than almost any other: failing. We avoid it, we hide it, sometimes we even give up trying just to avoid the risk of meeting it. And yet the man many consider the greatest basketball player of all time built his legend on the exact opposite relationship with that…
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Shakshuka: the recipe that blends history, science, and comfort
Read more →: Shakshuka: the recipe that blends history, science, and comfortThere’s a dish born from a Berber word meaning “mixture,” that crossed North Africa, arrived in Israel with Jewish immigrants from Libya and Tunisia in the 1950s, and decades later became one of the icons of Mediterranean breakfast: shakshuka. Eggs poached slowly in a spiced tomato sauce, often enriched with peppers, onion, cumin and paprika.…
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The Bond With Grandparents Matters More Than You Think, Science Says
Read more →: The Bond With Grandparents Matters More Than You Think, Science SaysThere’s a relationship that often gets sidelined when we talk about child development — not the one with parents, but the one with grandparents. Yet according to recent research, it may be one of the strongest predictors of emotional wellbeing in adulthood. A study published in Frontiers in Psychology in October 2025 by Jane Stephenson…
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“Never Give Up”: What Michael Phelps Learned From a Broken Wrist
Read more →: “Never Give Up”: What Michael Phelps Learned From a Broken WristThere’s a moment in every plan when something breaks — literally or not — and it feels like the whole thing is falling apart. For Michael Phelps, the most decorated swimmer in Olympic history, that moment was real: months before a decisive season, he broke his wrist, the very arm that built every stroke. In…
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What Makes a Truly Effective Manager? What Google and Gallup’s Data Say
Read more →: What Makes a Truly Effective Manager? What Google and Gallup’s Data SayThere’s a stubborn myth in the working world: that a good boss is simply someone who’s “tough” or the most technically skilled person on the team. The data tells a different, and far more useful, story for anyone who actually manages people every day. According to Gallup’s “State of the Global Workplace 2025” report, only…
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You Don’t Have Too Little Time: What Seneca (and Science) Can Teach You
Read more →: You Don’t Have Too Little Time: What Seneca (and Science) Can Teach You“We don’t have too little time, but we waste much of it.” Seneca wrote this almost two thousand years ago, yet it could have been written last night, while you were scrolling your phone wondering where the day had gone. In his treatise De Brevitate Vitae (“On the Shortness of Life”), Seneca argues something we…
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“Content creator” isn’t as new as you think — it’s almost thirty years old
Read more →: “Content creator” isn’t as new as you think — it’s almost thirty years oldHow many times have you read “content creator” in an Instagram bio or a job listing, assuming it was coined yesterday, right alongside social media itself? Its history says otherwise. According to the Accademia della Crusca’s (Italy’s academy for the Italian language) entry on the term, the first recorded use of the Italian phrase “creatore…
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Knowing Others Is Wisdom, Knowing Yourself Is Enlightenment: The Lesson from the Tao Te Ching
Read more →: Knowing Others Is Wisdom, Knowing Yourself Is Enlightenment: The Lesson from the Tao Te ChingSome lines sound simple until you actually stop to sit with them. One comes from one of the oldest texts in Eastern philosophy, the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, written in China probably around the 6th century BC: “Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment.” Two forms of knowledge that sound close, but…
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The Friendship That Really Counts: Why Quality Beats Numbers
Read more →: The Friendship That Really Counts: Why Quality Beats NumbersWhat science says about friendship quality: why a few genuine relationships do more for you than a full contact list.
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Cica Cream: The Science Behind the Skincare Trend Straight from Korea
Read more →: Cica Cream: The Science Behind the Skincare Trend Straight from KoreaIf you’ve scrolled Instagram or TikTok lately, you’ve probably run into this word: “cica.” It’s the affectionate nickname the beauty world gives to Centella Asiatica, a plant used for centuries in traditional Asian medicine to soothe wounds and skin irritation. Today it’s one of the most searched ingredients in calming creams — but behind the…
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No Human Is Limited: What Eliud Kipchoge’s Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Teaches Us
Read more →: No Human Is Limited: What Eliud Kipchoge’s Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Teaches UsOn October 12, 2019, in Vienna, Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 40 seconds, becoming the first person in history to break the two-hour barrier over that distance. The event, called the INEOS 1:59 Challenge, wasn’t an official race: it was an experiment designed to give a single…
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Time Management: What the World’s Top Productivity Experts Teach (And What Science Says)
Read more →: Time Management: What the World’s Top Productivity Experts Teach (And What Science Says)There are days when we feel unstoppable, and others when, despite working for hours, we barely finish anything. The difference rarely comes down to how much time we have — it comes down to how we organize it. Over the past few decades, some of the world’s most celebrated productivity experts have turned their observations…
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The Family Dinner That Protects: What Science Says About Quality Time Together
Read more →: The Family Dinner That Protects: What Science Says About Quality Time TogetherThere’s a moment in the day that can feel routine: sitting down to dinner together. Yet new research from Tufts University School of Medicine (2026) shows that this moment, when done well, can make a real difference in teenagers’ lives. The study found an association between high-quality family dinners and a lower risk of substance…
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The Ryff Model: 6 Pillars of Psychological Wellbeing to Nurture (Also) as a Family
Read more →: The Ryff Model: 6 Pillars of Psychological Wellbeing to Nurture (Also) as a FamilyThe 6 pillars of psychological wellbeing from Carol Ryff’s model (1989), and why nurturing positive relationships and personal growth together as a family builds more stable bonds over time.
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The 1% Factor: The Science of Changing Habits and Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone
Read more →: The 1% Factor: The Science of Changing Habits and Stepping Out of Your Comfort ZoneLuca Mazzucchelli’s 1% Factor, the science of habit (Lally, Duhigg, Bandura), and two NLP techniques to step out of your comfort zone without turning your life upside down.
