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Living in the Gain: Year-End Edition
4 hours ago

Living in the Gain: Year-End Edition

A year-end reflection on progress, motivation, and why looking backward can be more powerful than setting resolutions.

Kevin Luten
Kevin Luten
The End of History Illusion
Dec 14, 2025

The End of History Illusion

Why we believe we’ve finished becoming who we are, and how that belief quietly misleads us.

Kevin Luten
Kevin Luten
The U-Shaped Well-Being Curve: Revisited
Dec 07, 2025

The U-Shaped Well-Being Curve: Revisited

New research shifts the shape of the classic well-being curve and reveals when the real crisis now begins.

Kevin Luten
Kevin Luten
The Primal World Beliefs Framework
Nov 23, 2025

The Primal World Beliefs Framework

A concise guide to the 26 deep assumptions that shape how you interpret the world and why they matter.

Kevin Luten
Kevin Luten
What Sort of World Is This?
Nov 16, 2025

What Sort of World Is This?

A look at the invisible filters that bend experience, color judgment, and lead people to live in different realities.

Kevin Luten
Kevin Luten
What's the Meaning of Meaning?
Nov 09, 2025

What's the Meaning of Meaning?

The five building blocks of a meaningful life, defined and connected.

Kevin Luten
Kevin Luten
The Gen X Guide to Building a Resilient Brain
Nov 02, 2025

The Gen X Guide to Building a Resilient Brain

A practical midlife guide to training your brain today for strength, clarity, and resilience tomorrow.

Kevin Luten
Kevin Luten
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Building a Brain That Ages Well
Oct 26, 2025

Building a Brain That Ages Well

Neuroscience shows how novelty, meaning, and connection build a brain designed to keep adapting as you age.

Kevin Luten
Kevin Luten
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Investing in Your Cognitive Reserves.
Oct 19, 2025

Investing in Your Cognitive Reserves.

What if the key to resisting dementia isn’t just preventing it, but preparing your brain to outsmart it?

Kevin Luten
Kevin Luten
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Your Livewired Brain.
Oct 12, 2025

Your Livewired Brain.

How do billions of neurons become uniquely you? A look at how our environment shapes neural architecture early on and keeps shaping it as we grow.

Kevin Luten
Kevin Luten
More to Life Than Happiness? Part 2
Oct 05, 2025

More to Life Than Happiness? Part 2

Meaning rests on four dimensions: culture, identity, care for others, and the integration of past, present, and future.

Kevin Luten
Kevin Luten
Is There More to Life Than Happiness?
Sep 28, 2025

Is There More to Life Than Happiness?

Beyond happiness lies meaning. Research shows how the two feed each other but grow from very different roots.

Kevin Luten
Kevin Luten
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