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You may have heard that life is not a dress rehearsal. That you can't wait for your "real life" to ...

"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 ...

A year and two months after his wife died, Ralph Waldo Emerson opened her tomb.  Emerson had been ...

In the world of sports, when a star player leaves his team for another franchise, hometown fans often feel ...

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 ...

Whenever someone says something like “____ aspect of modern society is worse than it’s ever been,” ...

When you were a kid, teachers and parents probably told you to concentrate. And as an adult, you likely ...

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

When you have a kid, there inevitably comes a time when she not only wants you to push her on the ...

As an economist, Russ Roberts has been taught to approach decision-making by conducting an analysis, ...

Being adept at discerning people's true thoughts and intentions is a valuable skill to have. Knowing when ...

We think of life as moving in a single direction. Left to right. Up then down. So it is that when ...

Do you feel stuck in life? Inwardly you keep repeating the same thoughts, outwardly you keep repeating the ...

In the realm of physiology, being “metabolically flexible” means that your body can use whatever fuel ...

Step inside the homes of many middle-class, middle-aged Americans, and you'll find decorative wooden signs ...

Today marks the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II. It’s a milestone that feels both distant ...

Have you ever noticed that at your office or church, a small fraction of people do the lion’s share of ...