1. “What if a Recovery Is All in Your Head?”
“In 1937, Think and Grow Rich, a book by Napoleon Hill, urged readers to adopt a positive mental attitude and to channel the power of the subconscious mind so that real wealth would follow. It became a runaway best seller. Faddish interest had already emerged not only in Freud’s theory of the unconscious mind, but also in the theories of the psychologist Émile Coué, who urged people to recite that ‘every day in every way I’m getting better and better.’ He said this ‘autosuggestion’ would bolster the unconscious self.”
2. “High-Tech Devices Help Drivers Put Down Phone”
“Technology companies are trying to solve a problem caused by technology with more technology.”
3. “Mostly, It’s About Recovering From S.N.L.”
“Around 12:30, there’s this moment of truth: Am I going to leave the house before 7?”
4. “Benedict Woos Artists, Urging ‘Quest for Beauty’”
“He said the aim of the event on Saturday was ‘to re-establish a dialogue’ between the church and artists ‘that’s necessary and fertile for both.’”
5. “A Friend’s Tweet Could Be an Ad”
“In October, Mr. Chow’s income from Twitter ads was around $3,000. ‘I get paid for pushing a button,’ he said.”
6. “Two Films, Two Routes From Poverty”
“Both movies tell stories that suggest a way out of poverty, brutality and domestic calamity for certain lucky individuals while saying very little about how those conditions might be changed. For all their differences, they ultimately occupy a common ground that is both optimistic and, at the same time, curiously defeatist.”
7. “Citizen Welles as Myth in the Making”
“In grappling with an artist who revolutionized every medium he worked in but spent his final decades as a Hollywood outcast and a pop-culture punch line, Welles’s biographers … differ on whether he was a radical genius who fell victim to a callous and conservative system or a self-destructive failure who squandered his abundant gifts.”
8. “Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious”
“Scientists are beginning to tease out how exercise remodels the brain, making it more resistant to stress.”
