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

  Research, not to mention anecdotal observation, shows that a lot of narcissists end up in ...

  Performances by the actor Steve McQueen in classic films like The Great ...

  There are goals in life that seem very attainable. And then there are those which seem practically ...

At the beginning of every new year, people around the world make resolutions for how to better themselves. ...

Maybe you’ve made some resolutions for the year to come. Or perhaps you’re not into New Year’s ...

In most areas of your life that you seek to improve, there’s an external metric you can look at in order ...

It has long been observed that societies seem to oscillate between periods of peace and plenty, and ...

  Ask an adult, especially if they're struggling in life, what caused them to end up the way they did, ...

In your job, you probably have plenty of administrative work -- managerial and secretarial tasks like ...

  Looked at from the heat of combat, war can seem disorganized and chaotic. But ...

  When you think about serendipity, you likely think of strokes of good luck that happen entirely by ...

  When you think about ancient Greek tragedies, you probably think about people in togas spouting ...

During a season of intense stress in history, Carwood Lipton, an elite World War II paratrooper from the ...

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

  Humans like starting new things much more than taking care of older things. This is true on both an ...

Before there was politics, there was sex and love, games and sports, spirituality and art, glory and ...

  When we typically think about learning, we tend to think about being in a structured school, and doing ...

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  The kitchen of a busy restaurant can be a chaotic, frenetic environment. But the best chefs ...