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When someone is struggling with a seemingly easy problem, someone else might say, "Come on, it's not ...

Have you ever had a heated disagreement with a significant other over text? You were sure an inherent flaw ...

  Editor's note: The following excerpt -- "How to Acquire Good Manners" by Bentley Bates -- was ...

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We've all asked "what if" questions about our life: What if I had majored in art instead of business? What ...

According to Silicon Valley, self-driving cars are the future of transportation. Instead of owning and ...

On usual occasions we make a practice of stopping an occupation as soon as we meet the first effective layer ...

Which branch of the military has the toughest training course for its officers and special operators is a ...

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

I got my first journal when I was ten years old.  My entries were short descriptions of my day. ...

When it comes to how you're perceived in your professional life, it's likely you want to be ...

You hand someone a gift and they eagerly tear off the paper around the box. But as they examine the ...

War is about many things: glory, violence, courage, destruction. But at its heart is death. Each side in a ...

Amongst the Amazonian Sateré-Mawé tribe, boys are required to place their hand into a glove ...

After a stressful day at work, it’s common to unwind by sacking out on the couch and watching ...

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 ...

“Pioneers! O Pioneers!” Walt Whitman exulted more than a century and a half ago. Since that ...

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