From our mother’s heartbeat to order within the chaos. Music enhances a workout. And research conducted at Brunel University suggests that listening to music while exercising increases endurance by up to 15%. Hence why, I’ve never been into a tuneless gym. But exactly how and why music motivates us is…

Because you leftists and Matt Walsh are all so damn stupid. ‘Woman’ is just a five-letter word- a noun, to be more precise. We say it (aloud, written, or gestured with sign language) to communicate something about our shared experience. If the police ask me if I saw who stole…

‘The best slave is the one that thinks he is free.’ — JOHANN VON GOETHE In light of everything I’ve come to understand about behaviour, I realise that my motivation never originates within me. All my actions have an external cause. I didn’t choose my parents, my DNA, or the…

But both ‘the right’ and ‘the left’ keep getting it wrong. — This article isn’t about hormone blockers or public toilets. It’s about language. Our sophisticated method of communication sets us apart from other species. But language has its shortcomings, which is why miscommunication and misunderstandings are at the heart of so much conflict. This brings us to the linguistic challenges of…

I’ve been working on this article for too long. I’m mentally drained. Even though I haven’t moved anything but my fingertips for the last two hours, I’m exhausted. What the hell is going on? Everyone knows that if we exercise for too long, we get tired. But we also tire…

On everything that picks us up off the sofa. If you're reading this, then you’ve shown some appreciation for something I’ve written. And you’re probably into the psychology behind exercise. It may also mean that, like me, you’re fed up with the overbearing mantra from fitness gurus and gym buffs: that regular exercise takes self-discipline. But does it? I’ve spent most of the past seven years exploring that question and putting it in this one book.

(and why that shouldn’t matter). Are you familiar with the couch potato conundrum? Whilst nestled deep into sofa cushions like a sloth in a bed of cecropia leaves, the couch potato repeats the same four thoughts: 1) ‘I need to exercise.’ 2) ‘I don’t exercise because it takes too much effort.’ 3) ‘I know that…

And here are eight factors that accelerate or delay automation. — You may have heard that it takes twenty-one days to form a habit. Sure, in the 1950s, a plastic surgeon named Maxwell Maltz found that it took amputees around twenty-one days to stop feeling their phantom limbs and adjust to their new physiological circumstances. But Maxwell wasn’t talking about habits…

I’ve been reading another sports psychology book, and I’m a little disappointed. My issue is that it focuses on the mindset of an athlete rather than your average Joe. Sports psychologists worry about a competitor’s confidence before a big match, like blossoming British tennis star Emma Raducanu, who dropped out…