The self-awareness cost is high, but being alone is not loneliness.
Advice & Confessions
Discipline Is How You Keep Your Word: What Football Taught Me About Showing Up for Other People
On a team, your habits are never only about you. That lesson didn't end when I stopped playing.
On a team, your habits are never only about you. That lesson didn’t end when I stopped playing.
The Irony of Weaponized Concern
Cloaking gossip in concern lets people undermine someone while being praised for caring.
Cloaking gossip in concern lets people undermine someone while being praised for caring.
Commentary: Old Bones, New Purpose
Jared Ewy’s old home receives a breath of new life and purpose with a philanthropic gift to turn it into an education center for its community. It’s a real estate comeback story you don’t want to miss.
Jared Ewy’s old home receives a breath of new life and purpose with a philanthropic gift to turn it into an education center for its community. It’s a real estate comeback story you don’t want to miss.
Permission to Be Bad at Something
Why more men over 40 should pick up a pencil, a guitar or a lump of clay, and be terrible at it for a while.
Why more men over 40 should pick up a pencil, a guitar or a lump of clay, and be terrible at it for a while.
Rising Costs Are Forcing Americans to Delay Major Life Events
Rising living expenses are forcing Americans to postpone major purchases and life milestones as financial pressures reshape household spending priorities.
Rising living expenses are forcing Americans to postpone major purchases and life milestones as financial pressures reshape household spending priorities.
Not Every Flaw Must Be Illuminated
Don’t let intellect keep you from doing a good thing.
Don’t let intellect keep you from doing a good thing.
Hidden Part of the Brain Controls How You Prep for Uncertainties
Researchers have not only found a way to peer into an enigmatic structure in the brain but have also discovered its surprising role in how humans learn and adapt to uncertainties.
Researchers have not only found a way to peer into an enigmatic structure in the brain but have also discovered its surprising role in how humans learn and adapt to uncertainties.
What’s Next for Creativity?
Intellectual curation has arrived
As someone who writes a lot about creativity, I am now being asked frequently, “What will creativity look like in the age of AI?” Here is one possibility, one that I’m personally embracing: the activity of intellectual curation. Intellectual curation is the deliberate practice of gathering, selecting, juxtaposing, interrogating, and recombining existing ideas, using artificial…
The 9-to-5 Pressure Cooker
How many of us actually know our capacity at work? When is it too much?
How many of us actually know our capacity at work? When is it too much?
Dear Hopeless
I’ve been hopeless many times around many things, so I’m qualified for this one. Someone wrote to us from our newsletter and asked for some advice.
I’ve been hopeless many times around many things, so I’m qualified for this one. Someone wrote to us from our newsletter and asked for some advice.
I Was Taught to Be Unmovable. I Still Haven’t Moved in Years.
On being trained to hold still, and what it costs.
On being trained to hold still, and what it costs.
The Friends Who Cheer for You
Different relationships offer different things, and that honesty about their nature is preferable to sentimental pretense.
Different relationships offer different things, and that honesty about their nature is preferable to sentimental pretense.
Staying Grounded Without Checking Out
Discover how to stay emotionally grounded, manage overwhelming feelings and remain engaged with life without withdrawing from difficult situations.
Discover how to stay emotionally grounded, manage overwhelming feelings and remain engaged with life without withdrawing from difficult situations.
The Day I Stopped Chasing Inspiration
Or Why Inspiration Lives in Ordinary Moments.
Or Why Inspiration Lives in Ordinary Moments.
7 Strange and Unexpected Benefits of Sadness
Negative emotions often have a positive value and an adaptive purpose.
Negative emotions often have a positive value and an adaptive purpose.