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Late to Bed, Early to Die? Night Owls May Die Sooner
Bad news for “night owls”: Those who tend to stay up late and sleep in well past sunrise are at increased risk of …
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Psychology Today
How Do You Make or Maintain Friends? Put in the Time
Friendship takes time to develop. The more time two people spend together, the more likely they are to be friends. On the …
LifeHuman Parts
A Brutally Honest Review of My 10-Day Silent Meditation Retreat
No talking. No phones or technology. No yoga pants. No working out. No music. No reading. No writing. No killing (even …
LifeNautilus
The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind
What do these people have that the rest of us don’t? It turns out “ability” is the key word here. Beyond …
LifePersonal Growth
Travel Is No Cure for the Mind
We tend to grossly overestimate the pleasure brought forth by new experiences and underestimate the power of finding meaning …
Life TravelThe Mission
Why Most People Will Remain in Mediocrity
A life of your deepest dreams — 100% financial independence, being your own boss, traveling the world with your family, …
LifeThe Guardian
Is taming your ambition the key to a better life?
What are you really aiming for in life? Do you still have goals? Perhaps you’ve abandoned your earlier dreams. Maybe …
LifeScientific American
The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized
I have spent my entire career studying the psychological characteristics that predict achievement and creativity. While I …
LifeThe Mission
How to Future-Proof Yourself
Skills, behaviors & mindsets to adopt today for uncertain tomorrow.
Future of Work LifeThe New York Times
The Tyranny of Convenience
So let’s reflect on the tyranny of convenience, try more often to resist its stupefying power, and see what happens. We …
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How to get yourself out of a funk
On Tuesday, I woke up feeling a bit tired, uninspired, and just generally not in the mood to tackle my to-do list for the …
LifeLifehacker
The Biggest Wastes Of Time We Regret When We Get Older
We spend a lot of energy looking for shortcuts to save time, and sure, those shortcuts add up. But when I look back, my …
LifeOutside Online
The Case for Lowering Your Expectations
Still, it’s worth reiterating that setting high expectations is integral to personal, athletic, and professional …
LifeThrive Global
Here's How to Make The Biggest Decisions of Your Life
What is the worst thing that can happen? Well, it could cost me some money. Ok, well money is replaceable so that’s a …
LifeThe New Yorker
Improving Ourselves to Death
In our current era of non-stop technological innovation, fuzzy wishful thinking has yielded to the hard doctrine of personal …
LifeNoteworthy - The Journal Blog
11 Lessons I Learned After Reading 1,000+ Profiles of Successful People
I’ve read more than 1,000 profiles since I started writing The Profile, a weekly newsletter featuring the best …
Life WorkThe Guardian
Modern life is lonely. We all need someone to help
Most people understand that loneliness is neither necessarily felt by people who are alone, nor alien to people who are …
LifeDarius Foroux
Impatience: The Pitfall Of Every Ambitious Person
Big splashes don’t happen. Overnight success doesn’t exist. We have to remind ourselves of that whenever …
LifeSlate Magazine
Terminal
This is a story about how the airport became the setting for the Great American Freakout. Once an icon of progress, then …
Life TravelVox
How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult
This is a sad story. People almost universally report that friendships are important to their happiness and well-being. They …
LifeQuartz
This was the year I realized my brain belongs to my phone
A couple days without a smartphone is the most first-world of problems. That made the degree to which it affected me all the …
LifeThe New York Times
How to Have Fewer Regrets
People identify regret as the second most common emotional state, after love. Don’t worry too much about missteps: …
LifeMark Manson
The Real Value of Money
There are many stores of value in life. Time is a form of value. Knowledge is a form of value. Happiness and other positive …
LifeThe New York Times
Why Trying New Things Is So Hard to Do
Habits are powerful. We persist with many of them because we tend to give undue emphasis to the present. Trying something new …
LifeKZhu
Does Life End at 35?
Do you sometimes lie awake worrying that you aren’t succeeding fast enough? Are you tortured by younger peers who have …
LifeThings Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You Already
Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows, for the same reason we keep schools open despite every …
Life WorkTED
Feel like you don't fit in? Here's how to find where you truly belong
Some fresh advice on identifying and searching for your own community, from business innovator Nilofer Merchant.
LifeNautilus
Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will
If you get distracted by the same thing in the same way every day, it adds up to a distracted week, distracted months.
LifeLifehacker
Embrace the Swedish Lagom Lifestyle to Reduce Stress and Live More Moderately
Applying a sense of lagom to our everyday lives—in what we eat, what we wear, how we live, how we work—might just be the …
LifeSFGATE
These 9 places in America will pay you to move there
As more Americans move to cities, rural American towns — and even entire states — are looking for new ways to incentivize …
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