--- title: Five Best: Writing Out Your Feelings Makes You Less Stressed description: How writing out your feelings makes you less stressed, Netflix has forgotten our classic movie heritage and more. canonical: https://time.com/4946126/how-writing-out-your-feelings-makes-you-less-stressed/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-18T16:00:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:29.334Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Writing Out Your Feelings Makes You Less Stressed og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4946126/how-writing-out-your-feelings-makes-you-less-stressed/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Writing Out Your Feelings Makes You Less Stressed twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Writing Out Your Feelings Makes You Less Stressed by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 18, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 18, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how writing out your feelings makes you less stressed.**](http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/for-worriers-expressive-writing-cools-brain-on-stressful-tasks/) By _Michigan State University_ **2\.** [**Netflix didn’t just kill the video store. It has forgotten our classic movie heritage.**](http://www.newsweek.com/2017/09/22/netflix-streaming-movies-classics-664512.html) By Zach Schonfeld in _Newsweek_ **3\.** [**Marshland is wildly effective at cleaning carbon out of the atmosphere. And marshes are rotting away.**](https://www.guernicamag.com/the-marsh-at-the-end-of-the-world/) By Elizabeth Rush in _Guernica_ **4\.** [**Careful with that compliment. Kids praised for being smart are more likely to cheat.**](http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/kids-praised-for-being-smart-are-more-likely-to-cheat) By Inga Kiderra at _UC San Diego_ **5\.** [**Could we finally be getting rid of the Electoral College?**](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/05/electoral-college-national-popular-vote-compact-215541) By Tim Alberta in _Politico Magazine_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4946126/how-writing-out-your-feelings-makes-you-less-stressed/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4946126/how-writing-out-your-feelings-makes-you-less-stressed/"},"headline":"How Writing Out Your Feelings Makes You Less Stressed","datePublished":"2017-09-18T16:00:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:29.334Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4946126/how-writing-out-your-feelings-makes-you-less-stressed/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Environment","Innovation","Netflix","Education","writing","electoral college"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4946126/how-writing-out-your-feelings-makes-you-less-stressed/","name":"How Writing Out Your Feelings Makes You Less Stressed"}}]}] ```