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Grit beats talent
The later Nobel laureate James Buchanan used to advise his graduate students: “keep your ass in the chair”. Woody …
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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.
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Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
In April of 1958, Hunter S. Thompson was 22 years old when he wrote this letter to his friend Hume Logan in response to a …
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Homeless Millennials Are Transforming Hobo Culture
The vagabond ecosystem is changing thanks to cellphones, Wi-Fi, Craigslist and Google Maps.
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7 things I did to reboot my life
I had this epiphany at the beginning of September: This thing that I’m doing? This series of choices I make every day? …
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Most People Won't
Most people won’t. But every once in a while someone puts themselves out there. Makes the leap. Faces rejection or …
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The 'Get My Shit Together' Afternoon
Even the most diligent of us has loose ends we can tie up: unnecessary costs, insurance, emergency preparedness, and so on. …
LifeThe Guardian
Why too much choice is stressing us out
From jeans to dating partners and TV subscriptions to schools, we think the more choices we have the better. But too many …
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9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings
Reflections on the rewards of seeking out what magnifies your spirit.
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How to be an Overnight Success
I bet so many reading this are not happy because they aren’t getting what they want in life; they are expecting it too …
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How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question …
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We Don't Need No Education
At least not of the traditional, compulsory, watch-the-clock-until-the-bell-rings kind. As a growing movement of unschoolers …
LifeThe Guardian
I gave it all up... to live off the land
Last year, my boyfriend Laurence and I gave up our jobs to go in search of an alternative way to live. I’m from London …
LifeThe Atlantic
The Terror and Tedium of Living Like Thoreau
When you’re alone in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, the simplest question becomes the most complicated: How do you …
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In search of meaningful
Since 1989, when I first started doing online media, people have been transfixed by scale, by numbers, by rankings. …
LifeThe Art of Manliness
How to Develop the Situational Awareness of Jason Bourne
As the names implies, situational awareness is simply knowing what’s going on around you. It sounds easy in principle, …
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The Ultimate Guide for Becoming an Idea Machine
The way to have good ideas is to get close to killing yourself. It’s like weightlifting. When you lift slightly more …
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Alan Watts on Money vs. Wealth
Among our most toxic symbol-as-reality tricks springs from the concept, use, and pursuit of money: “But this ingrained …
Life WorkTED
Where Is Home?
More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. Writer Pico Iyer — who himself has three or …
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From US Marine To Zen Monk
Scott Mangis is a former US Marine who now lives his life as a Zen monk near Tokyo, Japan. We explore Scott’s life …
LifeBuilding Asana
Work Hard, Live Well
As an industry, we are falling short of our potential. We could be accomplishing more, and we could be providing a better …
Life WorkHow To Suck At Life
My life sucked when I was fired from a job and lost my home and got a divorce and my mom stopped talking to me. It sucked …
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Money Doesn't Buy Happiness, But Time Just Might Do It
While on vacation in distant locales, people often find that time moves quite differently than in the places they’re …
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The Moral Bucket List
I came to the conclusion that wonderful people are made, not born — that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable …
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How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day
We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is. It is the realisation of this …
LifeMens Journal
Anthony Bourdain's Life Advice
CNN’s coolest globe-trotter on punctuality, omelets, and how vanity got him clean.
LifeThe Guardian
David Graeber Interview - 'So Many People Spend Their Working Lives Doing Jobs They Think Are Unnecessary'
The anarchist author, coiner of the phrase ‘We are the 99%’, talks to Stuart Jeffries about ‘bullshit …
Life WorkBen Casnocha
Unconventional, Entrepreneurial Lives And The Challenge Of Loneliness
But for all the rah-rah-rah, there are serious, under-discussed challenges with an idiosyncratic, comparison-destroying life. …
Career LifeAll Too Common Ways We Allow Our Lives To Suck
Not happy with your professional or personal life? If that’s the case, the problem isn’t your upbringing, or a …
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Loneliness
Loneliness is overrated, and I try not to worry too much about it. My thinking is, if I never experience it, I’m …
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