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  Life revolves around learning—in school, at our jobs, even in the things we do for fun. But we often ...

  Over the last decade, there's been an increase in the number of people, particularly young adults, who ...

  When we think of rituals, we tend to think of big, inherited, more occasional religious or cultural ...

  Jake Knapp loves tech. He grew up using Apple II and then Mac computers, browsing bulletin boards, and ...

  Happiness and depression can feel like slippery and befuddling things. We can do the things we've been ...

  In the 19th century, Cerro Gordo, which sits above Death Valley, was the largest silver mine in ...

  From work to chores to entertaining distractions, there are many options for what you can be doing at ...

  Note: This is a rebroadcast.  When you think about someone having a midlife crisis, you ...

  Note: This is a rebroadcast. In my twenties and early thirties, I was a regular journaler. Several ...

  When people think of the plays of Shakespeare, they tend to think of his comedies and tragedies that ...

There are few concepts we believe in more strongly than just how powerful the examples of other people are ...

  Attend the graduation of a college senior, and the commencement speech is likely to include a few ...

  Forty years ago, now retired professor of sociology Daniel Chambliss performed a field study in which ...

Below is an excerpt adapted from the introduction to Psychology and the Promethean Will by William H. ...

  The social theorist Charles Taylor says that part of what characterizes a secular age is that there ...

It’s a new year, so many men are thinking about making changes in their lives.  Maybe you want ...

  When we think about getting more done, we tend to think about working harder, exerting more willpower, ...

  The Battle of the Bulge commenced on the morning of December 16, 1944. The Allies were ill-prepared ...

  Virtue ethics is an approach to life, a framework for developing character and making moral decisions. ...

Back in 2015, I started weightlifting seriously.  Over eight years of training, I was able to get ...