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The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today… The whole future lies …
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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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Why I Stopped Helping People And You Should Too
My mother taught me never to give unsolicited advice, nor try to help anyone unless they ask you for it. I always thought …
LifeThe Roam Diaries
As We May Live
Nearly 100 years after our modern idea of home was invented, we started a company that aims to create something better. …
Life WorkStumbling and Mumbling
Costs of under-confidence
This reminds me that one of the under-rated skills in life is the ability to know one’s skill.
LifeMedium
How I became a morning person (and why I decided to make the change)
I traded a typical night-owl schedule—up ’til midnight or later, staring at a screen, writing, doing design work, …
LifeTeleport
Five people with extremely unconventional homes
Housing can be a lot more difficult than just choosing a place and moving in. Sometimes, when the situation calls for it, …
LifeBrain Pickings
How to Be Alone: An Antidote to One of the Central Anxieties and Greatest Paradoxes of Our Time
“We live in a society which sees high self-esteem as a proof of well-being, but we do not want to be intimate with this …
LifeThe Art of Non-Conformity
Don't Pursue Something that Someone Said You Should Want
Don’t commit to one idea of the future but instead, commit to a problem that you want to solve. Then you can stay …
LifeMedium
How to NOT take a photo
Next time you encounter something truly breath-taking, stop yourself from grabbing the closest image-capturing-machine. …
LifeThis Is What Happens When You Try To Do the Impossible
For 5000 years or longer, humanity has driven forward with story-telling. Too many people forget that but the only way to …
LifeThe New York Times
Born to Be Conned
Stories are one of the most powerful forces of persuasion available to us, especially stories that fit in with our view of …
LifeQuartz
To extend my life, I changed my perception of time
A cool thing about moving to another country is that your life gets longer. Last year I calculated, that I should move to …
LifeSlate Magazine
The World Is Not Falling Apart
Never mind the headlines. We’ve never lived in such peaceful times.
LifeNautilus
The Science of Gratitude
Research suggests saying thanks regularly can benefit your health.
LifeZen Habits
How to Want Very Little
Imagine a life where we could enjoy simple, free pleasures like going for a walk in nature, meditating, reading a book, …
Life MinimalismMedium
The day I became a millionaire
Once you’ve taken care of the basics, there’s very little in this world for which your life is worth deferring. …
LifeMedium
AI will reorganize the human population
Our vision is to make moving so easy and information about life quality so transparent that we would end up with a world …
Life WorkBBC
Viewpoint: How creativity is helped by failure
The problem in the world today is that we only see the final product - the amazing movie, the super-efficient vacuum cleaner, …
Life WorkZen Habits
A Healthy Way to Aspire to a Better Life
I have a friend who is unhappy with his life — being in debt, lonely, with a job he doesn’t like, in a town he …
LifeSignal v. Noise
Give it five minutes
There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people’s money and 2. Dismissing an idea. …
LifeZen Pencils
Alan Watts: What if money was no object?
So I always ask the question: What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your …
LifeWandering Earl
Why I Made a List of Memorable Life Experiences This Morning
I wrote the above list because I genuinely wanted to see if the experiences I’ve been through have been sufficiently …
LifeMedium
Resist and Thrive
This is a talk about what happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money.
Life WorkBBC
Why we should stop worrying about our wandering minds
Daydreaming has a bad reputation, but neuroscientists are beginning to realise that a wandering mind is not only typical – it …
LifeLegatum Institute
The 2015 Legatum Prosperity Index
Is a nation’s prosperity defined solely by its GDP? Prosperity is more than just the accumulation of material wealth, …
LifeThe Guardian
Put your life into flight mode
It wasn’t overly surprising, really, to learn from two recent psychology studies that being “on call” is …
LifeThe Atlantic
Why It's So Hard for Millennials to Find a Place to Live and Work
The paradox of the American Dream: The best cities to get ahead are often the most expensive places to live, and the most …
Life WorkHacker News
How do I stop comparing myself to others?
I always have this problem of feeling inadequate. I’m a junior CS student at a decent but not great school. Some of my …
LifeThe Atlantic
Coliving: A Solution for Lonely Millennials?
In a new model of living, residents will have their own “microunits” built around a shared living space for …
LifeMedium
Reconsider
Part of the problem seems to be that nobody these days is content to merely put their dent in the universe. No, they have to …
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