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Editor's note: The following is an excerpted chapter from Influencing Human Behavior (1925) by H. A. ...

 Whenever a financial or technological disaster takes place, people wonder if it could have possibly ...

What does it mean to live a good life? How can we achieve that good life?  These are questions a ...

The summer travel season is upon us, and many people are looking forward to spending time in desired ...

 This week marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy. This amphibious Allied ...

Someone says something (or doesn’t). You get a text (or don’t). And something in the message (or lack ...

While dopamine is often known as the pleasure chemical, it would be better termed the anticipation ...

 We often think that to become a success in today’s modern world, you have to specialize and ...

 The Korean War is often overlooked by Americans. But this forgotten war played a big role in ...

 In the modern age, shame is often seen as an unmitigated bad. According to this popular view, ...

I’ve long thought the encouragement to “be yourself” was peculiarly bad advice. Because what self ...

 Many people today are feeling stressed or overwhelmed by life. The typical approach to treating these ...

Our family recently decided to move from reading different picture books to each of the kids at night, to ...

What do great men like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt all have in ...

 When it comes to your personal presentation, there’s one aspect that often gets overlooked: ...

 For thousands of years, men's lives were structured by rituals -- rituals that helped them mark ...

With most women [James Bond’s] manner was a mixture of taciturnity and passion. . . . He found something ...

 We live in a world where it’s possible to work ourselves 24/7. Even when you’re away from the ...

I’m sure you remember the story of the Little Red Hen. The hen asks her friends to help her plant and ...

Typically, we think of productivity and procrastination as antithetical to each other. We’re ...