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You walk up to a door and put the wrong key in the lock. It doesn’t turn. Do you then keep trying that ...

There's no shortage of information out there on how to change — how to lose weight, exercise more, ...

When you were growing up, and your family was invited to a dinner party, chances are you ate exclusively ...

Many people have, throughout their lives, experienced varying degrees of existential angst: the feeling of ...

Man, life can be a slog sometimes.  Each day, annoying little piddly things arise that aren’t ...

We tend to throw the word "genius" around pretty casually, saying so-and-so has a genius for a ...

In the aftermath of the Second Punic War, Roman citizens erected several statues — which remained standing ...

Most everyone has experienced restlessness from time to time. A feeling of wanting more, but being ...

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

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 ...