Why Our Preoccupation with Happiness Has Made Us Less Happy
“Happiness studies seem to be a way of convincing people they’re happy — or could be happy — even as they’re being dealt increasingly bad hands in terms of thin...
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Why Sitting Down Destroys You
“Fitness talks muscles before spine. Gymnasts focus on how they are moving their body — and they also just happen to have awesome posture and a really strong co...
22 Weird but Profound Life Lessons
“Don’t let a quick decision ruin everything you’ve built for yourself. Keep saying no to things that don’t serve you.”
How Cancelling Everyone’s Student Debt Could Help the Economy
“If the government were to forgive all the student debt it owns (which makes up more than 90 percent of all outstanding student debt), and bought out all privat...
12 Rules for Life, According to a Woman Who Just Turned 45-Years-Old
“Always order one extra dish at a restaurant, an unfamiliar one. You might like it, which would be splendid. If you don’t like it, all you lost was a couple of ...
The Difference Between Being Non-Racist and Anti-Racist
“You going to bed with a clear conscience is not going to stop college kids from getting assaulted. You thinking climate change is terrible is not going to stop...
How to Challenge Your Own Ideas of Failure
“When you make a mistake you have two choices. One is you can accept that the final product is gonna be flawed, and maybe no one will ever see it but you will a...
How Facebook Is Killing Comedy
“We’re used to a world where if you put something out there that’s good, people see it and share it. But that’s just not true in this world. Someone can make so...
What Teenagers Are Learning from Online Porn
“‘There’s nowhere else to learn about sex,’ the suburban boy told me. ‘And porn stars know what they are doing.’ His words reflect a paradox about sex and porno...
Your Systems Are More Important Than Your Goals
“Goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress.”