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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ...

Emotions play a central role in how you experience life.  If you frequently feel angry, depressed, ...

  Anyone who's ever tried to lose weight, curb their temper, quit smoking, or alter any other habit in ...

  Of the dozens of men who have served as US president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a particularly ...

  People sometimes ask me what I think of video games. I think that, in moderation, they're a fine ...

"I need your John Hancock." "He's the prodigal son of our family." "That job was like working in the ...

  In 2016, David Sax wrote a book called The Revenge of Analog, which made the case that even as we ...

Over the years, I've tried to implement various morning and evening routines. The goal of these ...

  You've heard of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. But did you know that its author, ...

  When Kate was growing up, her grandfather often told her that when he was serving on a Navy ship ...

  In the 80s and 90s, few sports stars loomed as large as Bo Jackson. A Kansas City ...

  There are two parts of the mind: the conscious and the unconscious. While the former dominates your ...

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

  A lot of people feel dissatisfied about how they spend their time. They often feel busy, but that ...

  As long as humans have existed, we've had to choose between our lower and higher desires — between ...

  "Don't be a quitter!" "Quitters never win, and winners never quit!"   These maxims ...

  The ancient Greeks and Romans thought a lot about what it means to live a virtuous life. They believed ...

In one of the emails Oliver Burkeman, author of Time Management for Mortals, sent out to his subscribers, ...

  Our lives are populated by rituals. Baptisms. Funerals. Graduations. Singing happy birthday, chanting ...

  Amidst the epic clashes of armies and navies that make war such a fascinating subject, lie the smaller ...