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9 Proven Ways to Nurture Old and New Friendships

4. Honor where they’re coming from.

4. Honor where they’re coming from.

When the World Feels Like Too Much

Living your life can feel wrong when suffering is so visible. Name that tension and find ways to stay grounded without shutting down.

Living your life can feel wrong when suffering is so visible. Name that tension and find ways to stay grounded without shutting down.

My Secret to Avoid Drifting in the New Year

Personal Perspective: For years, I grew frustrated as I watched myself fail to reach my goals. When I began to set standards instead, everything changed.

Personal Perspective: For years, I grew frustrated as I watched myself fail to reach my goals. When I began to set standards instead, everything changed.

The Inner Work of Outer Change

Consciousness shapes action. Leaders who examine their inner landscape create stronger organizations.

Consciousness shapes action. Leaders who examine their inner landscape create stronger organizations.

This Psychological State Could Help Prevent Dementia

Could your mindset shield your brain? Research shows that building this may lower dementia risk—even if you’re genetically at risk. Here's how to strengthen it today.

Could your mindset shield your brain? Research shows that building this may lower dementia risk—even if you’re genetically at risk. Here's how to strengthen it today.

Doing Tedious Tasks Is a Form of Quiet Power

How tolerating friction in tedious tasks pays off across life domains.

How tolerating friction in tedious tasks pays off across life domains.

Question Everything

Have you ever wondered how government got started and why its growth has gotten so far out of control? A look at how critical thinking can limit government.

Have you ever wondered how government got started and why its growth has gotten so far out of control? A look at how critical thinking can limit government.

How Chronic Pain Became My Motivation for Good

Personal Perspective: Imagine living with unrelenting chronic pain. Now imagine turning that pain into an unrelenting dedication to end the suffering of nonhuman animals.

Personal Perspective: Imagine living with unrelenting chronic pain. Now imagine turning that pain into an unrelenting dedication to end the suffering of nonhuman animals.

Avoiding Human Error

Mistakes may be human, but reliability can be cultivated. The goal isn’t perfection. It is an everyday mindful presence.

Mistakes may be human, but reliability can be cultivated. The goal isn’t perfection. It is an everyday mindful presence.

A Different Kind of Happiness: The Quiet Power of Contentment

Contentment offers a calmer way to feel well. This steady emotion supports self-acceptance, balance, and a gentler approach to everyday life.

Contentment offers a calmer way to feel well. This steady emotion supports self-acceptance, balance, and a gentler approach to everyday life.

Anti-Science on the Rise, but One Book Is an Antidote

The book, The Shape of Wonder, makes academics human and not the enemy.

The book, The Shape of Wonder, makes academics human and not the enemy.

The Top 10 Rules for an Amazing Business Partnership

Platitudes are the usual faire when discussing great business partnerships. At our first anniversary we're getting into the nitty gritty of what it actually takes to thrive.

Platitudes are the usual faire when discussing great business partnerships. At our first anniversary we're getting into the nitty gritty of what it actually takes to thrive.

How Arguments Go Wrong—and How Bad Arguments Can Go Right

An introduction to the structure of deductive arguments, how to evaluate them, and why a bad argument doesn’t necessarily mean the conclusion is false.

An introduction to the structure of deductive arguments, how to evaluate them, and why a bad argument doesn’t necessarily mean the conclusion is false.

One Everyday Tool That’s Easy to Overlook

This tool has three main benefits that can help you make better decisions.

This tool has three main benefits that can help you make better decisions.

The Benefits of "Clean, Conscious Living"

A Personal Perspective: Some call it minimalistic living. Others call it clean, conscious living. "Less is more" is the goal.

A Personal Perspective: Some call it minimalistic living. Others call it clean, conscious living. "Less is more" is the goal.

Parents, Adolescents, and the Power of Regret

For most parents and adult children, looking back on their adolescent passage together and the choices made is likely to engender some regrets over what they did and didn't do.

For most parents and adult children, looking back on their adolescent passage together and the choices made is likely to engender some regrets over what they did and didn't do.

Newly Discovered Strengths Associated With Neuroticism

Interactions with other traits that lead to "healthy neuroticism."

Interactions with other traits that lead to "healthy neuroticism."

The Do-Over: Quick Fix for Relationship Mistakes

Don't let everyday mistakes make you both miserable and unravel your relationship. Reach quickly for this instant repair tool.

Don't let everyday mistakes make you both miserable and unravel your relationship. Reach quickly for this instant repair tool.

How Can a Man Who Saved 100 Soldiers Not Define Empathy?

One dinner table conversation showed how even the sharpest minds confuse empathy, sympathy, and compassion—and why getting it right matters now more than ever.

One dinner table conversation showed how even the sharpest minds confuse empathy, sympathy, and compassion—and why getting it right matters now more than ever.

Why People Probably Like You More Than You Think

Believing you're not likable could cost you.

Believing you're not likable could cost you.

Meet Your Conscience and Superego in "Sorry to Bother You"

Making decisions that honor ourselves and our values can be challenging. Consulting with one's conscience can offer a compassionate compass to guide us in the right direction.

Making decisions that honor ourselves and our values can be challenging. Consulting with one's conscience can offer a compassionate compass to guide us in the right direction.

The Job Search Process Is Changing

The job market is evolving. Why is the process so hard, what has changed? We can do more to help our colleagues—and in doing so, will help ourselves in the future.

The job market is evolving. Why is the process so hard, what has changed? We can do more to help our colleagues—and in doing so, will help ourselves in the future.

Becoming a Better Therapist by Considering Classic Rhetoric

Language can be enhanced when communicating with clients. Are you embedding messages to your clients by making full use of the way that effective language is conveyed?

Language can be enhanced when communicating with clients. Are you embedding messages to your clients by making full use of the way that effective language is conveyed?

Why People Need to Stop Boomerasking

"What are your summer plans? ... We're headed to the Amalfi Coast."

"What are your summer plans? ... We're headed to the Amalfi Coast."

3 Mistakes Conscientious People Make

How to build some flexibility into your discipline to achieve your best long-term results.

How to build some flexibility into your discipline to achieve your best long-term results.

Learning to Live in the Moment

Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed, Peter Drucker recognized.

Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed, Peter Drucker recognized.

Slowness of Movement Is the Key to Awareness and Learning

Feldenkrais Principle 6 emphasizes the importance of slowness of movement, or in his own words, “The delay between thought and action is the basis for awareness.”

Feldenkrais Principle 6 emphasizes the importance of slowness of movement, or in his own words, “The delay between thought and action is the basis for awareness.”

A Personal Method for Emotional Regulation

Here is one technique that has worked for me to shorten how long negative emotions, especially anger, dominate my life.

Here is one technique that has worked for me to shorten how long negative emotions, especially anger, dominate my life.

The Value of Minimalism in Movement Awareness

The fifth principle of the Feldenkrais Method promotes nuanced, finely tuned movements, asserting that such subtlety optimizes the brain’s ability to detect and refine differences.

The fifth principle of the Feldenkrais Method promotes nuanced, finely tuned movements, asserting that such subtlety optimizes the brain’s ability to detect and refine differences.

An Awakening to the Possibility of Joy in Life

Personal Perspective: An early recollection steeped in joy sets the stage for a lifetime propensity for delight and connection.

Personal Perspective: An early recollection steeped in joy sets the stage for a lifetime propensity for delight and connection.