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1999's Fight Club.

The Crippling Cultural Ignorance of ’90s Film and TV

The '90s felt like an incredibly safe time—so safe, we sneered at it. But you can see still see the ignorance of the decade in its films and TV shows like 'Pleasantville,' 'Fight Club' and 'Friends.'
By Film Crit Hulk
Comfort in our failures allows us to act without fear.

The Confidence Conundrum

Often we worry that if we become comfortable in our failures that we will become failures. But it doesn’t work that way.
By Mark Manson
The tendency to avoid fears is exactly what limits us.

Develop Resiliency: How to Move Towards Your Fears

Fear is the place where you’ll grow. It’s where you’ll learn, and love, and connect, and become free of all your old limitations.
By Leo Babauta
Not all problems will just evaporate using this method, but I can tell you that you’ll be able to face many more things as you practice this method.

The Face-Everything Technique: Why Avoiding Difficulties Doesn’t Work

By Leo Babauta
What is failure?

How Can I Overcome the Fear of Failure?

By Evan Asano
Collective trauma: A child walks amongst US national flags erected to honor victims of the 9/11 attacks.

How the Pain of 9/11 Still Stays With a Generation

By Dana Rose Garfin
During my professional tennis career motivation came in many different forms.

What Are the Best Tips for Staying Motivated, Happy and Focused?

By Pat Cash
There's an insidious quirk to your brain that, if you let it, can drive you absolutely batty.

The Feedback Loop From Hell

By Mark Manson
In the saga of the Yukon watermelon, we see three of the worst entrepreneurial bad habits converge: inertia, ego and fear.

What an $85 Watermelon Taught Me About Building a Billion-Dollar Business

By Ryan Holmes
Most of us are often held back by fear of failure or ridicule.

How I Go From Terrified to Confident (With One Simple Trick)

By Tristan de Montebello
New York Police Officers secure the area near the scene of a shooting in a building on February 4, 2016 in the Bronx.

Dr. Marc Siegel: Fearing for the Safety of Cops Imperils Our Health

By Marc Siegel
With apologies to any neurologists present. I may have mis-labeled the pre-frontal squirrel lobe.

How to Know If You’re Making Excuses or Thinking Clearly

By Oliver Emberton
How do we deal with this?

What Productivity Systems Won’t Solve

By Leo Babauta
This new four step method will help you "stop the noise in your head."

Why Worrying Can (Sometimes) Be Healthy for Your Brain

By John Bonazzo
“Don’t fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become.”

How to Hack Your Brain to Become Radically More Confident and Less Fearful

By Elle Kaplan

What We Can Learn From Facebook Following the Paris Massacre

By Peggy Drexler

Decline of Western Civilization’s Penelope Spheeris on Documenting the Misunderstood

By Katherine Turman

The Video Playlist Experiment 1/3: “The Scared Is Scared,” directed by Bianca Giaever

By Sarah Ullman (Sully)
Susan Strasberg in the thriller 'Taste of Fear' (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images).

Why We Should Learn To Live With Fear

By Peggy Drexler
People stand by as a makeshift memorial is made after vigil at the University of North Carolina following the murders of three Muslim students on February 11, 2015 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/ Getty Images)

With Three Murders in Chapel Hill, America Must Confront Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

By Rabia Chaudry
Anger

Will Citi Bikes Be Even More Reviled Than Their Racks? Is That Even Possible?

By Kim Velsey

Schneiderman Wants 'Full' Safety Check at NY Nuclear Plant

By Meghan Keneally

This Is What a Times Square Bomb Looks Like [Video]

By Matt Chaban

Rise of the Deflationists! Pimco’s Bill Gross Joins Bullard and Krugman

By William Alden
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