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 If you're an athlete, you know that it can be helpful to get psyched up before a big game. But getting ...

In your quest for self-improvement, you'll likely encounter moments of despair where your current self ...

The last time we had entrepreneur, professor, and author Luke Burgis on the show, he discussed the ...

Throughout each day, all of us make little shifts in our roles and responsibilities; we take off one hat ...

When Americans think back to the War of Independence, most are apt to feel that, had they lived back then, ...

My flight was awful. The restaurant's service was terrible. The traffic was horrible. My boss is the ...

I turned 40 last December.  No, I haven't had a midlife crisis.  But that number did cause ...

Like every modern consumer, before I buy new sneakers, book a hotel room, or make a restaurant ...

When we think about Stoic philosophers, we typically think about the thinkers of ancient Greece and Rome, ...

When you take a step back from it, modern war is genuinely bizarre. Nation-states, formed by drawing arbitrary ...

To be successful at their craft, magicians must possess the well-honed technical skills to pull off their ...

In the mid-1980s, David Hemery set out to answer a burning question: "What makes a winner?" Hemery was ...

When people think of the paratroopers of World War II, they tend to think of the European theater — the ...

The charge to be well-mannered, to treat others with civility, kindness, and respect, is perennial. But ...

Discipline is essential to every success in life. It establishes the stable, well-ordered ground that ...

Do you feel stuck in life — that you aren't making progress in a relationship, job, or goal and you ...

When Daniel Zia Joseph decided to join the Army at the unusually late age of 32, he solicited advice from ...

I enjoy browsing used bookstores. I like walking down the aisles, looking at the tattered spines of the ...

Note: This is a rebroadcast of a favorite episode from the archives. Writing an email while on a Zoom ...

 Different generations love to cast aspersions on each other. Boomers think Millennials and Gen Zers are ...