Your retirement experience is a function of the collision between what you are retiring “from” and what you are retiring “to,” and this plays out differently for each of us.
Have you ever walked away from a conversation with a new acquaintance buoyed by a sense of rapport and "chemistry"? It may be due to a good fit between your conversational styles.
Heroes are held in such high esteem because they set aside any thoughts of their own well-being for the good of their group. However, is there more to the story?
There was a movement to make the treatment of mental illness more humane during the 1700s and 1800s, but what did day-to-day life actually look like in the insane asylums of 1854?
None of us want to believe that our homes are inviting targets for a robbery, and we think that we have taken adequate precautions. We should think again.
As something comes to look and act more like an actual human, it becomes more attractive to us, until it becomes almost exactly like a human but not quite.
Self-deprecation is best practiced from a position of strength – when you feel confident about your status and believe that this lines up with others’ perceptions of you.
Shooters driven by ideology and shooters driven by personal slights operate in different ways, but achieve the same horrific results. Understanding these differences is important.
What happens when everyone thinks they're smarter than everyone else? The inability to imagine that you are wrong may be undermining civil political discourse in America.
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