Until recently, many medical outcomes were considered a matter of fate. But when doctors realized that the way in which most genes are expressed depends more on individual lifestyle choices than inheritance, the game changed for good. Now researchers know that the genes we’re born with are usually less important than what we choose to […]
Watch Your Mouth
What if you could pin all the world’s problems on one source? As a spiritual guru, Eckhart Tolle has given the matter some thought. In A NEW EARTH, he writes about how society would transform if only humankind could transcend its self-centered point of view. In a book full of lofty ideas, Tolle offers a very […]
The Woman Behind the Brand
Social media influencer and self-help powerhouse Rachel Hollis is known for her candid style. But even Hollis’s most casual photos and confessional posts are part of a personality that she has carefully curated for public consumption. Our latest Success Story goes behind the brand to get the story of the real Rachel Hollis.
Get In The Game
When practicing a new skill, it’s easy to focus on everything you’re doing wrong. But W. Timothy Gallwey, a coach who’s famous for introducing meditation to the Harvard University Tennis Team, points out that all that negativity obscures the fact that almost all of us improve in any given pursuit over time. In THE INNER GAME […]
Something to Talk About
As a writer on TV shows like ER and Friends, Lori Gottlieb was a storyteller whose job was to find the drama in everyday situations. Then, in the midst of a wildly successful second career as a psychotherapist, Gottlieb had some drama of her own—a terrible breakup that landed her in counseling. With MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO […]
Canine Wisdom
How do our pets feel about us? Bored with studying the way that humans make decisions, neuroscientist Gregory Berns decided to find out. He used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to make the world’s first maps of the canine brain. One of the things Berns wanted to know is whether dogs have emotional lives, or […]
Three Ways To Get It Together
Have you been looking for ways to improve your life, either professionally or personally? You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Successful professionals often borrow tactics and routines from one another to achieve their goals. By emulating the habits of effective people, you can make incremental changes to your life that add up to huge […]
Indulge Your Dark Side
There’s a fine line between self-improvement and being too hard on yourself. In living up to your potential, it’s all too easy to become locked in a cycle of questioning your own worth. Luckily, there’s an antidote: RADICAL ACCEPTANCE. This weekend, take a page from psychologist Tara Brach’s book and silence your inner critic. Radical acceptance […]
A Journey to Love and Faith
David Brooks and his wife split up in 2013, after decades of marriage. Adrift, the New York Times columnist threw himself into his writing. Brooks’s fortune took a surprising turn during a hike in Aspen, when he stopped to read a book of Puritan prayers. It was the first step in his journey towards Christian faith—and a second […]
Free-range Expertise
You don’t need a head start. You don’t need 10,000 hours. And you certainly don’t need to specialize in anything while you’re still a kid. With RANGE, a treatise against the cult of deliberate practice, journalist and sportswriter David Epstein makes the case for how people who learn a little about a lot of things […]
