15 Signs You Can Trust Someone
“Individuals who are worth your trust know they don’t have all the answers. They look for ways to learn and improve themselves constantly, and through that proc...
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10 Writing Tips from the Founding Editor of the Onion
“Sometimes, after you’ve cut everything, you could realize that you weren’t really saying anything at all — and while that realization might be sad, it’s also v...
Why You Need an Untouchable Day Every Week
“Untouchable Days have become my secret weapon to getting back on track. They’re how I complete my most creative and rewarding work. To share a rough comparison...
Eight Ways to Beat Burnout
“A huge source of burnout is the feeling that we’re not accomplishing the things that we want to accomplish — we’re pushing and pushing and pushing, but somehow...
Three Ways to Be Happy Based on Scientific Research
“Becoming acutely lonely, the experiment found, was as stressful as experiencing a physical attack. It’s worth repeating. Being deeply lonely seemed to cause as...
Five Ways to Figure out How You Waste Your Time
“Progress gets harder to measure the closer you get to the middle of a project. In that nebulous middle zone, the finish line is still too far away to see.”
16 Things Andrea Zittel Knows for Sure About Life and Creativity
“What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.”
40 Things About Life John Fawkes Would Tell Himself If He Could Travel Back in Time
“Judge yourself by your inputs in the short term, and your outputs in the long term.”
Four Things to Know Before You Get Married
“Remember that every dollar you take from someone else is a dollar of influence they get to wield.”
19 Great Truths from a 90-Year-Old Grandmother
“There are thousands of people who live their entire lives on the default settings, never realizing they can customize everything.”