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Before Gary Collins left a bureaucratic government job to pursue a more independent existence off the ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to ...

Shyness, social-interaction-sabotaging awkwardness, is commonly chalked up to a variety of causes. ...

When it comes to proposed solutions to life's problems, whether on an individual or ...

In East Asian religious and philosophical traditions, Tao means “the Way,” and represents the ...

Of all the letters you will write during your life, the sympathy note is arguably the hardest to pen. It can ...

One technique people have used for centuries to improve themselves is the making of ...

Romanticism, not in terms of courtship and bouquets of roses, but as a philosophical approach to ...

To figure out the cost of something, we typically look to its price tag. But this number represents but a ...

In Finland, "sisu" is a concept that, while it can't be strictly translated into English, roughly ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Sunday to ...

Journals in which only the first few pages have been written in. Bibles in which only the first few pages ...

Personal responsibility, the ability to own up to one's mistakes, is a foundational element of character. ...

Self-help books -- which aim to help individuals independently improve some or all aspects of their lives ...

The Roman army hires a former legionnaire to hunt down a courier and intercept a letter he is ...

When smartphones first started taking off, which, strange to recall given their current ubiquity, was only ...

It's been posited that, outside Jesus and Shakespeare, no one has been quoted more often than Winston ...

Many people know Bruce Lee as a martial artist and film star. But he was also a  philosopher, who ...

In recent years, it's become fashionable to question the authenticity of Thoreau’s famous experiment in ...

One of the keenest desires of every individual is to find his purpose -- the reason you’re here on ...