Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Know thyself is the most famous maxim of Greek philosophy, carved into stone on the Temple of ...

In the past, I've been humbled to discover things about myself I didn't want to know: as I wrote in The Good Guy Contract, that I believed I needed other people to like me to be happy, and as I wrote ...

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 ...