Olga Khazan

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This week on "Sunday Morning" (June 1)

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | David Morgan |Olga Khazan |Shannon Sauer-Zavala

The Emmy Award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning" is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. "Sunday Morning" also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.) Hosted by Jane Pauley COVER STORY: "Sunday Morning" interviews Elon MuskDavid Pogue reports.
Healing from Trauma Through Meditation

1 week ago | olgakhazan.substack.com | Olga Khazan

ME, BUT BETTER, my book about personality change, is out now. If you haven’t yet, please pick up your copy today. And if you’ve read the book, it would mean the world to me if you could leave an Amazon review. Thank you!Anxious people who like to google their anxieties will often come across a particularly noxious type of clickbait: This Simple Trick Works Better Than Klonopin for Anxiety, the headline will promise. Click on the link and … surprise! It’s meditation. It’s always meditation.
Why So Many People Still Assume That Mom Knows Best

3 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Olga Khazan

When Austin Estes took his sick infant son to urgent care, he struggled to change his diaper in an exam room not equipped with a changing table. “Oh, if only Mom was here,” the nurse said. Estes, an education-policy consultant in Washington, D.C., wondered why she’d think his wife would better handle an impossible diaper change. Justin Rauzon, a project director in Los Angeles, told me he listed himself as the primary contact on the intake paperwork at his child’s pediatrician’s office.
I Thought I Needed Anxiety for My Job. I Was Wrong.

4 weeks ago | wsj.com | Olga Khazan

My success was fueled by hard work and planning—not by my endless fear about outcomes. I recently took a personality test and decided I needed to change some things; some aspects of my personality seemed to be responsible for making me unhappy. A high level of neurotic anxiety was one of them. To help adopt a new mindset, I took intensive meditation class; the “homework” involved meditating for 45 minutes a day.
I Thought I Needed Anxiety for My Job. I Was Wrong.

4 weeks ago | fnlondon.com | Olga Khazan

I Thought I Needed Anxiety for My Job. I Was Wrong. My success was fueled by hard work and planning—not by my endless fear about outcomes. Published May 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM ET I recently took a personality test and decided I needed to change some things; some aspects of my personality seemed to be responsible for making me unhappy. A high level of neurotic anxiety was one of them. To help adopt a new mindset, I took intensive meditation class; the “homework” involved meditating for 45 minutes a day.
You Have It In You

1 month ago | olgakhazan.substack.com | Olga Khazan

ME, BUT BETTER, my book about personality change, is out now. If you haven’t yet, please pick up your copy today. And if you’ve read the book, it would mean the world to me if you could leave an Amazon review. Thank you!The more I talk about my book, the more I think “You Have It in You” could have been an alternate title for it.
Why Personality Matters

1 month ago | olgakhazan.substack.com | Olga Khazan

ME, BUT BETTER, my book about personality change, is out now. If you haven’t yet, please pick up your copy today. And if you’ve read the book, it would mean the world to me if you could leave an Amazon review. Thank you!As I’ve been promoting my book on personality change, I’ve been getting one question over and over: Why is personality important? That is, why should you want to change one or more of you personality traits?
What ‘Adolescence’ Understands About Phones and Kids

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Olga Khazan

Jonathan Haidt on how the show portrays the horrors of a screens-based childhood Adolescence, the blockbuster Netflix miniseries, presents a terrible possibility—that a seemingly “good” kid in a normal English town, with two well-meaning parents, could be drawn so far down the poisoned well of the internet that he stabs a classmate to death. Terrible, but not unfathomable: Just last year, a 17-year-old in England stabbed several children to death after viewing violent instruction manuals online.
Why Am I So Tired?

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Olga Khazan

The first sign of Mom Fatigue is leaving weird stuff in the fridge. Olivia Walch once got so tired that she put a box of Cheerios in the refrigerator. For Erin Wamsley, it was mugs of coffee and clean dishes; for Amanda Lamp, a pen. Maya Cash Carpenter told me her car keys sometimes turn up there. As I interviewed mothers about the symptoms of their persistent exhaustion, they described brain fog, sleepiness, and general discombobulation.
Miksi muistelemme ankeita aikoja lämmöllä? ”Katastrofeihin voi liittyä enemmän hyviä muistoja kuin hääjuhliin” | The Atlantic

1 month ago | apu.fi | Olga Khazan

The Atlanticin alkuperäisen, englanninkielisen jutun voit lukea tästä linkistä. Suosittu venäläinen vitsi menee jotakuinkin näin: Mitä sellaista kapitalismi sai aikaan vuodessa, mitä kommunismi ei saanut aikaan edes 70 vuodessa? Vastaus: se sai kommunismin näyttämään hyvältä. Niinkin äskettäin kuin vuonna 2015 lähes 70 prosenttia venäläisistä oli sitä mieltä, että Neuvostoliiton hajoaminen oli huono asia, ja lähes 60 prosenttia uskoi, että Stalinilla oli enimmäkseen myönteinen rooli historiassa.