In our last post we provided a big picture overview of what attention is and how it works. We explored the ...

Ritual is one of the oldest and most universal forms of human expression in the world. Over the last ...

Welcome back to our series on the nature and power of ritual. So far, we have talked about ritual’s ...

According to his biographer, Robert Coram, John Boyd made “more contributions to fighter tactics, ...

“Pay attention!” “If you just focused more, you’d be more successful!” We’ve all ...

In advance of a series of articles we’ll be doing this year on some of the rites that have been central ...

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Unless you regularly read this blog, you may never have heard someone use the word manliness in writing or ...

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  In today's episode I talk to A.J. Jacobs, editor-at-large at Esquire Magazine, writer of several ...

Awhile back I was doing a HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) workout over on a nearby running/biking ...

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  In today's episode I talk to Dr. Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist and author of the Defining ...

Over the door of a building that sits close to the Stirling Castle in southern Scotland, hangs a curious ...

  In today's episode I talk to Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of Make Magazine, co-founder of Boing ...

In the first post in this series we discussed the concept of the “Pyramid of Choice,” and the way in ...

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Welcome back to our series on what weakens our integrity and how to strengthen it. Thus far we have ...