A recent paper in Current Opinion in Psychology by Thielmann and Burghart explores the limits of self-knowledge, why it matters, and how we can strengthen self-awareness. In this article, I discuss ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Seneca and Shakespeare were artistic geniuses with extraordinary insight, but in an empirical ...

One of the oldest, most well-worn maxims is know thyself. A repeated and central theme of the teachings of Socrates, the inscription “know thyself” was inscribed the entrance the Temple of Apollo, ...