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We all have that friend or relative who tells the same stories over and over. As soon as he or she gets ...

My favorite Homeric epic is the Odyssey. I've lost track of the number of times I've read it. While the ...

  It's been 30 years since the landmark self-management book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was ...

  Everyone has experienced the way our feelings fluctuate day by day, and even hour by hour. ...

Back when I was in law school between 2006 and 2009, I was a productivity junkie. I read all the books and ...

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

  On the surface, it can feel like we've made a lot of technological, economic, and cultural progress ...

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

  Decades ago, economists thought that thanks to advances in technology, in the 21st century we'd ...

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

  Have you come to a point in your life where the pursuits of your younger years no longer seem ...

  Have you ever had a period in your athletic or professional career where you kind of felt like you ...

Confession: For most of my life, I haven’t been a consistent flosser.  Brushing my teeth two ...

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

  A few months after Winston Churchill took office as prime minister, the German military ...

Superstitions — beliefs that are neither directly religious nor logically sound — have surely been ...

  Are you feeling overwhelmed at work? Trying to find a job, but can't seem to get your foot in the ...

Editor's note: The following essay (which has been condensed from the original), was written by Elbert ...

  So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of reaction. We tackle the most urgent tasks. We deal with ...

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