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Funny thing about growing older: in every stage, at every age (starting even as a teenager!), you think, ...

In the first year of his presidency, the press used Theodore Roosvelt's name in connection with the word ...

Shame has gotten a bad rap these days. It’s popular to think of all shame as “toxic,” and that ...

Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from The Ultimate Art of War by Antony Cummins, in which the ...

Nearly everyone has experienced the sense of being nudged and prompted to take certain actions. These ...

In the realm of personal finance, living “paycheck to paycheck” means that you’re able to just cover ...

If you struggle with feeling distracted, you likely think that modern technology is to blame, and that if ...

On a fall day, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John wandered by a river looking for historical ...

Over the summer I spent some time in Vermont. My days were filled with walks in the woods, floats down ...

Have you ever heard a podcast which offered an approach to tackling a problem that seemed to make a lot of ...

If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who are. --Wendell Berry  As time went by, I also ...

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An old friend just died, and his funeral is few states away. You’re thinking about going, but the ...

Emotions have gotten a bad rap these days. We’re frequently told we should mistrust them, ignore them, ...

Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette coined the phrase “High Chair Tyrant” to describe a psychological ...

When we seek an example of great leadership, one man who often comes to mind is Winston Churchill -- the ...

Several myths abound around the subject of men and emotion. One is that the traditional quality of ...

Over ten years ago, I read the book Getting Things Done by David Allen. I've been using the ...

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle writes more about friendship than any other moral virtue, arguing ...

When Paul Kalanathi was 36 years old, he was on the cusp of finishing a decade's worth of training to ...