Seventy years are given to us! Some may even reach eighty. But even the best of these years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we are gone. … Teach us to make the most of our ...

Last week we published our study led by Joanna Witowska from the University of Warsaw, Poland, on how the ability to self-regulate helps counter the effects of boredom while waiting alone in a room.

Blaise Pascal’s famous sentence in his Pensées “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone” can only be understood in the context of subjective time. What ...