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Back in 2015, I started barbell training seriously.  Thanks to some great coaching, I was able to ...

When most people think of psychopaths, they think of uniformly monstrous characters who lack empathy and ...

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, was a statesman, diplomat, and man of letters. In his own time, ...

You know Michael Phelps, the most successful and decorated Olympic swimmer of all time who won a record 28 ...

For the ancient Greeks, eudaimonia was considered the highest human good. While the word doesn't ...

Several years ago, the American Psychological Association issued a set of guidelines for psychologists ...

If you've ever waited, and perhaps are now currently waiting, to hear whether or not you've tested ...

Back in January, we wrote an article explaining why it might be better to wait to make your New Year’s ...

We live in a chatter-filled world. People will talk your ear off when you see them in person and ...

If you've had some contact with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, there's a good chance you found it ...

Like many of the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson was a dad. And like a lot of dads, he often took the ...

You get really excited about an idea to start an exercise program, or become a better partner, or get ...

Many a man has been impressed by the ingenuity of secret agent operations, and intrigued by the ...

Note: This is a rebroadcast. You may think of anxiety as a reaction, a feeling, or a disorder. My guest ...

Last week we explored Plato's allegory of the chariot, which the ancient philosopher used to explain the ...

Nothing is as fatiguing as the continued hanging on of an uncompleted task. —William James You probably ...

Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron” imagines a time in which the government enforces the ...

Has life been feeling flat?  Do you not get the same pleasure from activities you once ...

You walk down your driveway to your mailbox.  You open it up and start sorting through your ...

Twenty years ago, it didn't seem like a burdensome task to write a handwritten letter to a loved one. ...