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The Case for Lowering Your Expectations
Still, it’s worth reiterating that setting high expectations is integral to personal, athletic, and professional …
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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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Here's How to Make The Biggest Decisions of Your Life
What is the worst thing that can happen? Well, it could cost me some money. Ok, well money is replaceable so that’s a …
LifeThe New Yorker
Improving Ourselves to Death
In our current era of non-stop technological innovation, fuzzy wishful thinking has yielded to the hard doctrine of personal …
LifeNoteworthy - The Journal Blog
11 Lessons I Learned After Reading 1,000+ Profiles of Successful People
I’ve read more than 1,000 profiles since I started writing The Profile, a weekly newsletter featuring the best …
Life WorkThe Guardian
Modern life is lonely. We all need someone to help
Most people understand that loneliness is neither necessarily felt by people who are alone, nor alien to people who are …
LifeDarius Foroux
Impatience: The Pitfall Of Every Ambitious Person
Big splashes don’t happen. Overnight success doesn’t exist. We have to remind ourselves of that whenever …
LifeSlate Magazine
Terminal
This is a story about how the airport became the setting for the Great American Freakout. Once an icon of progress, then …
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How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult
This is a sad story. People almost universally report that friendships are important to their happiness and well-being. They …
LifeQuartz
This was the year I realized my brain belongs to my phone
A couple days without a smartphone is the most first-world of problems. That made the degree to which it affected me all the …
LifeThe New York Times
How to Have Fewer Regrets
People identify regret as the second most common emotional state, after love. Don’t worry too much about missteps: …
LifeMark Manson
The Real Value of Money
There are many stores of value in life. Time is a form of value. Knowledge is a form of value. Happiness and other positive …
LifeThe New York Times
Why Trying New Things Is So Hard to Do
Habits are powerful. We persist with many of them because we tend to give undue emphasis to the present. Trying something new …
LifeKZhu
Does Life End at 35?
Do you sometimes lie awake worrying that you aren’t succeeding fast enough? Are you tortured by younger peers who have …
LifeThings Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You Already
Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows, for the same reason we keep schools open despite every …
Life WorkTED
Feel like you don't fit in? Here's how to find where you truly belong
Some fresh advice on identifying and searching for your own community, from business innovator Nilofer Merchant.
LifeNautilus
Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will
If you get distracted by the same thing in the same way every day, it adds up to a distracted week, distracted months.
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Embrace the Swedish Lagom Lifestyle to Reduce Stress and Live More Moderately
Applying a sense of lagom to our everyday lives—in what we eat, what we wear, how we live, how we work—might just be the …
LifeSFGATE
These 9 places in America will pay you to move there
As more Americans move to cities, rural American towns — and even entire states — are looking for new ways to incentivize …
LifeNational Geographic
Meet the Man Who Has Lived Alone on This Island for 28 Years
Mauro Morandi’s failing catamaran was carried to Budelli Island nearly three decades ago by chance. He never left.
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I Quit
Don’t put your life off. It takes a while to figure things out. But that doesn’t mean you should quit. I’ve …
LifeThe Mission
Lost on Purpose
My three-year spiritual journey from “successful” Type A startup founder to joyfully “lost” — why …
LifePersonal Growth
How life rewards those of us who play
Do the things you don’t do because of your concern for being labelled weird. Turn that around and find ways to be …
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Is there an upside to having no social life?
For one month, I declined all in-person activities with friends to see if it would make me more productive.
LifeScience of Us
The Secret to Small Talk
What I learned wasn’t the secret to engaging banter. It was that putting yourself out there — being open, genuine, and …
LifeThe Happy Startup School
Why do people still measure success in terms of money, power and knowledge? They're looking in the wrong place.
It’s a lot easier to compare the size of our bank accounts than to compare who’s leading a more fulfilling life. …
LifeThe Message
A need to walk
There is an art and history to walking and walking well. “To walk for hours on a clear night is the largest experience …
Life TravelThe Mission
There are 100 days left in 2017.
What could you do in a hundred days? Could you write a book? Could you launch a side project? Could you hand in your notice? …
LifeBerkeley News
Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse
Pressure to feel upbeat can make you feel downbeat, while embracing your darker moods can actually make you feel better in …
LifeThe Mission
You Have to Show Up. Every. Day.
Showing up once in the pursuit of your goals will put you ahead of most people who operate by fuzzy aspirations but will put …
LifeThe New York Times
You'll Never Be Famous — And That's O.K.
Today’s college students desperately want to change the world, but too many think that living a meaningful life …
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