BERLIN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 20: Shoppers walk past a store advertising sales on Schlossstrasse shopping street in Steglitz district during the fourth wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic on December ...

Human beings have a deep-seated desire for certainty and control. Several studies show this need serves at least two important purposes. First, it helps us believe that we can shape outcomes and ...

I didn’t know what to expect. I was sitting in a bland waiting room, staring at a clock on the wall. My wife noticed how the time was moving slower than expected, that the nurse in the next room was ...

Control is not so much what we do as what we are. We can never step outside the process of organic, autonomous control. Well, not until we take that final step into whatever lies beyond our earthly ...

Control, or rather, seeking to have control, is a form of anxiety. It is rooted in the default, and often unconscious belief or feeling that “I am not going to be okay” or “Things will not be okay.” ...

The ability to regulate our impulses and desires is indispensable to success in living and working with others. People with good control over their thought processes, emotions and behaviors not only ...