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We have a small lot of woodsy land behind our house, and a few years ago I decided to make a trail through ...

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Eric McCarty.  My neighbor, JT, is seven feet tall. Or ...

 500 years ago, St. Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier turned religious convert, created the Society of Jesus. ...

 Insults are a part of the human experience. We insult others and we get insulted back. Social media has ...

 We live in a time of hype and self-aggrandizement. But my guest today argues that what the world needs ...

"I Don't Know" From the Business of Life, 1916 By Frank Crane One of the healthiest exercises for the ...

 Have you ever been part of an organization where everyone and everything just seemed to click? People are ...

 It’s been said that life is a series of decisions. But life is complex and filled with randomness and ...

It’s hard not to notice that in interactions both online and off, people seem increasingly polarized ...

 With boxing on the wane in America for the past twenty some odd years, it’s easy to forget how much of ...

 When you hear self-reliance, what do you think of? Living off the grid in a cabin somewhere? Doing ...

Editor's note: “If you want to start incorporating microadventures into your life," Alastair Humphreys ...

Editor's note: This is a guest article by Kyle Eschenroeder, author of The Pocket Guide to ...

 There's a lot out there about leaders needing to be authentic. But what if you need to put on a mask ...

  "Crippled for Life" From Climbing Manward, 1924 By Frank H. Cheley I once crippled a ...

 For thousands of years, philosophers and writers have debated the nature of courage. What is it? Are some ...

"Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to ...

 Have you been stuck in a rut for awhile? Have you been there so long that you feel like there’s no use ...

At the Göbekli Tepe archaeological site in Turkey, large barrel-shaped stone vessels were found that may ...

 The ends justify the means. It’s better to be feared than loved. Politics have no relation to ...