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What's life? Across our curated articles and stories, you'll find a 21st Century perspective on topics such as life lessons, creativity, mindfulness, self-improvement, and much more.
Aeon
Work imitates life
The utopian workplace is here, complete with roof gardens, therapists and time to nap. Can the employee ever escape?
Life WorkThe Atlantic
When Do You Become an Adult?
In an age when the line between childhood and adulthood is blurrier than ever, what is it that makes people grown up?
LifeThe Bigger Picture
Fuck Your Life Hacks: If you want to change, then change.
But fuck all these end of year bullshit get-your-life-together-with-these-five-steps articles. Medium and Twitter and fucking …
LifeAeon
Ask the aged
Who better to answer questions about the purpose of life than someone who has been living theirs for a long time?
LifeThe New York Times
You Don't Need More Free Time
Americans work some of the longest hours in the Western world, and many struggle to achieve a healthy balance between work …
LifeMedium
Life Changing Lessons from a Dying man
Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, expected his students to pay attention to his lectures. But he would …
LifeJames Clear
The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don't Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do (And What to Do About It)
Human beings have been procrastinating for centuries. Even prolific artists like Victor Hugo are not immune to the …
Life ProductivityThe New York Times
Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick?
Yet instead of empowering them to thrive, this drive for success is eroding children’s health and undermining their …
LifeThe Art of Manliness
Via Negativa: Addition by Subtraction
Just as effective as adding something to our lives, if not more so, is subtracting the things that might be holding us back. …
LifeMedium
The Zen of Ice Cold Showers
In many ways we are a culture exceptionally filled with stress, distraction, anxiety, struggle and despair. But we …
LifePriceonomics
How Young Adults Spend Their Time: 2004 vs 2014
For all the changes that we observed over the past decade, much has also stayed the same. Twentysomethings are spending …
LifeMedium
Don't Edit Your Imagination
As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming President, and have ideas …
LifeQuartz
You probably know to ask yourself, What do I want? Here's a way better question
If I ask you, “What do you want out of life?” and you say something like, “I want to be happy and have a …
LifeNir Eyal
Can't Kick a Bad Habit? You're Probably Doing It Wrong
When it comes to gaining control over bad habits, like eating food we know isn’t good for us, I shared with her the …
LifeThe Atlantic
Stop Being So Self-Conscious
Yesterday, I gave a great talk; today is a real bad hair day. This year I worked hard on my introductory psychology class; …
LifeMedium
On Quitting: Part II
I said in my last post, “You will never figure out what’s right until you fix what you already know is inherently …
LifeBBC
Your life on earth
How you and the world have changed since you were born.
LifeNautilus
What I Learned from Losing $200 Million
The 2008 financial crisis taught me about the illusion of control, and how to give it up.
LifeJon Kuperman
They Rejected Us
Everyone’s been rejected - these are our stories.
LifeBrain Pickings
The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today… The whole future lies …
LifeMedium
Why I Stopped Helping People And You Should Too
My mother taught me never to give unsolicited advice, nor try to help anyone unless they ask you for it. I always thought …
LifeThe Roam Diaries
As We May Live
Nearly 100 years after our modern idea of home was invented, we started a company that aims to create something better. …
Life WorkStumbling and Mumbling
Costs of under-confidence
This reminds me that one of the under-rated skills in life is the ability to know one’s skill.
LifeMedium
How I became a morning person (and why I decided to make the change)
I traded a typical night-owl schedule—up ’til midnight or later, staring at a screen, writing, doing design work, …
LifeTeleport
Five people with extremely unconventional homes
Housing can be a lot more difficult than just choosing a place and moving in. Sometimes, when the situation calls for it, …
LifeBrain Pickings
How to Be Alone: An Antidote to One of the Central Anxieties and Greatest Paradoxes of Our Time
“We live in a society which sees high self-esteem as a proof of well-being, but we do not want to be intimate with this …
LifeThe Art of Non-Conformity
Don't Pursue Something that Someone Said You Should Want
Don’t commit to one idea of the future but instead, commit to a problem that you want to solve. Then you can stay …
LifeMedium
How to NOT take a photo
Next time you encounter something truly breath-taking, stop yourself from grabbing the closest image-capturing-machine. …
LifeThis Is What Happens When You Try To Do the Impossible
For 5000 years or longer, humanity has driven forward with story-telling. Too many people forget that but the only way to …
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