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 Which branch of the military has the toughest training course for its officers and special operators is ...

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

I got my first journal when I was ten years old.  My entries were short descriptions of my day. ...

 When it comes to how you're perceived in your professional life, it's likely you want to be ...

You hand someone a gift and they eagerly tear off the paper around the box. But as they examine the ...

 War is about many things: glory, violence, courage, destruction. But at its heart is death. Each side ...

Amongst the Amazonian Sateré-Mawé tribe, boys are required to place their hand into a glove interlaced ...

After a stressful day at work, it’s common to unwind by sacking out on the couch and watching ...

We all have that friend or relative who tells the same stories over and over. As soon as he or she gets ...

My favorite Homeric epic is the Odyssey. I've lost track of the number of times I've read it. While the ...

“Pioneers! O Pioneers!” Walt Whitman exulted more than a century and a half ago. Since that time, ...

 It's been 30 years since the landmark self-management book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was ...

 Everyone has experienced the way our feelings fluctuate day by day, and even hour by hour. ...

Back when I was in law school between 2006 and 2009, I was a productivity junkie. I read all the books and ...

It's one of the most common human refrains: “If only I had more time, I would do/be _____.” If I had ...

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

 On the surface, it can feel like we've made a lot of technological, economic, and cultural progress ...

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

 Decades ago, economists thought that thanks to advances in technology, in the 21st century we'd ...

Though St. Augustine would become a bishop, church father, and one of the most influential thinkers of ...