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Our current model of education is not only outdated; it’s not particularly effective.
Feb 8

What We Should Have Learned in School But Never Did

If the purpose of education is to turn us into fully functional, happy and healthy adults, it is failing on numerous levels.  
By Srinivas Rao
Giving and receiving positive feedback can exponentially improve your relationships with others and yourself.
Feb 1

Why Taking Compliments Is So Hard, and How to Finally Accept Them

Giving and receiving positive feedback can exponentially improve your relationships with others and yourself.
By Francesca Friday
Learning to accurately identify feelings could radically improve your quality of life.
Jan 11

Change Your Life by Building Your Emotional Intelligence: A Guide For Men

How strengthening your 'emotional intelligence'—the ability to recognize and emotions and express them to others—improves your mental and physical health.
By David Waters
Unsplash/Gabriel Matula
Jan 3

Study Confirms F-Bombs Actually Help People Tolerate Pain

By Francesca Friday
Unsplash/Erin Walker
Dec 21

Science Confirms Christmas Music Is Bad for Your Mental Health

By Francesca Friday
How we think.
Dec 4

Do You Make These Thinking Errors?

By Darius Foroux
The industrialist required us to believe in climbing the career ladder.
Nov 20

Take Your Life Back With the 30 x 30 x 30 Rule

By Todd Brison
Our transparency obsession does not bode well for us.
Oct 17

How Too Much Transparency Can Disrupt Your Life

By Srini Pillay
We don’t get to choose so much of happens to us in life, but we can always choose how we feel about it, whether we’re going to work with it or not.
Oct 13

The Unfathomable Power of Amor Fati

By Ryan Holiday
It’s tricky to point out the qualities in you that your friends love.
Oct 2

The Most Lovable Thing About Each Myers-Briggs Personality Type

By Heidi Priebe
The next time you feel like criticizing someone, take a second to look inside yourself.
Sep 21

The Only Way to Be Positive in a Negative World? Don’t Kick Over the Beehive

By B.J. Mendelson
the latest research shows that the little we know about emotions is actually all wrong.
Sep 1

New Neuroscience Reveals Three Secrets That Will Make You Emotionally Intelligent

By Eric Barker
It can be easy to neglect something as simple and straightforward as the idea of just taking time to think.
Aug 29

The Two-Hour Rule: The Genius of Einstein, Darwin and Nietzsche Applied

By Zat Rana
How do you fight the lie that deprivation equals death when you’re not even aware of it?
Aug 22

The Lie We Tell Ourselves About Self-Indulgence, and What It Costs

By Barry Michels and Phil Stutz
We will all face pain at some point.
Aug 18

This Is How to Recover From Tragedy: Four Secrets From Research

By Eric Barker
Who me? No, I didn’t eat the head off this chocolate.
Aug 15

Watching Children Learn How to Lie

By Gail Heyman
Jump in, get messy.
Aug 10

Why Your Biggest Mistake Could Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You

By Donnalynn Civello
It’s all about the actions you take or don’t take when fate shows up.
Jul 31

3 Ways to Bend Fate in Your Favor

By Donnalynn Civello
What’s the right approach to take when trying to get certain people to treat you better?
Jul 26

How to Stop Being a Pushover: Five Secrets From Research

By Eric Barker
Making everyone hold your hand will never give you security.
Jul 24

PSA to Control Freaks: You’ll Be Better Off if You Let Go

By Donnalynn Civello
Yellowstone National Park, the first National Park in the U.S. and widely held to be the first national park in the world.
Jul 21

The Best Argument to Not Sell Federally Owned Land: It Makes You Smarter

By Lisa Schmeiser
If we attempt to push away our pain, whether it is physical or emotional, we almost always find ourselves suffering even more.
Jul 14

What It Means to Suffer, and Why It’s Important

By Frank Ostaseski
Violent and distressing news video and images pose mental health risks for journalists in newsrooms — a new phenomenon.
Jul 12

Violent News: Psychological Trauma a New Risk in Digital Age

By Anthony Feinstein
What is Zen, actually?
Jul 12

Five Zen Principles to Live By

By Darius Foroux
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