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2026
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Jul 13, 2026
10 signs you’re raising kids like it’s 1999
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Jun 9, 2026
Cup or no cup, the world is already here by Marcus Gee
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May 26, 2026
Why I Bought A 750 Square Foot Bird Mural At A Busy Downtown Subway Station
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May 12, 2026
My Favorite David Sedaris Essay: "You Can't Kill The Rooster" [Explicit]
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Apr 28, 2026
Chapter 1 from 'You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life'
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Apr 4, 2026
An Open Letter to Mark Carney: Please don't pave Lake Ontario to expand Billy Bishop Airport
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Mar 31, 2026
10 Inspirational Email Newsletters To Help You Live A Better Life (2.0)
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Mar 20, 2026
How messy your face is after eating shawarma
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Mar 3, 2026
A reflection on becoming: Kurt Vonnegut's final piece of advice to students
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Feb 6, 2026
5 ways you can be happier (in 2 minutes or less!)
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Jan 20, 2026
Leadership Lessons: Chrystia Freeland’s Goodbye Letter
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Jan 6, 2026
Why Gratitude is a Leadership Superpower: My Interview with the Smith School of Business
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2025
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Dec 12, 2025
The Very Best Books I Read in 2025
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Dec 1, 2025
Starlings in Winter (a poem by Mary Oliver)
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Nov 18, 2025
A gift guide to my books
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Nov 4, 2025
Why we let sports break our hearts
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Sep 16, 2025
46 Things I've (Almost) Learned As I Turn 46
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Sep 2, 2025
65 surprising truths from the world’s most consistent blogger
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Aug 19, 2025
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son
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Aug 5, 2025
20 Bits of Wisdom From Susan Cain (Author of 'Quiet' and 'Bittersweet')
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Jul 16, 2025
A poetic reminder to put down your phone and pause...
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Jun 18, 2025
20 Things I Would Tell Myself At Age 20
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May 21, 2025
8 reasons why it’s time to become a birdwatcher
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May 7, 2025
Memories of a 94-year-old friend...
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Apr 22, 2025
2000 years of fighting productivity pressures
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Apr 8, 2025
19 Things I Would Tell Myself At Age 19
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Feb 25, 2025
On our infinite appetite for distraction...
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Jan 14, 2025
Joy in Dark Times
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2024
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Dec 28, 2024
Forget New Year's resolutions. Do this instead.
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Dec 6, 2024
The Very Best Books I Read in 2024
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Dec 3, 2024
Hermann Hesse on the Wisdom of Trees
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Nov 19, 2024
Oliver Burkeman's eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life
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Nov 5, 2024
A few thoughts on gratitude...
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Oct 22, 2024
Take a deep breath - Excerpt from from 'Breath' by James Nestor
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Sep 24, 2024
More birthday wisdom from readers...
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Sep 16, 2024
45 Things I've (Almost) Learned As I Turn 45
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Aug 27, 2024
A Happiness Tune-Up: My New Interview With Forbes
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Aug 12, 2024
Why are we so bad at predicting the future?
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Jul 28, 2024
A two-minute evening practice to move nighttime angst into gratitude and peaceful sleep
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Jul 16, 2024
The Only 2 Questions To Ask If You're Thinking Of Leaving Your Job
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Jul 2, 2024
The most famous gratitude letter of all time?
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Jun 18, 2024
How To Have More (And Better!) Vacation
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Jun 4, 2024
The fundamental unit of urban life
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May 21, 2024
Want to beat the algorithm? Don't play the game
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Apr 23, 2024
A few pearls of wisdom from John Steinbeck ...
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Apr 9, 2024
A powerful 2-minute midday happiness intervention...
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Mar 25, 2024
A few thoughts on cell phone pervasiveness
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Feb 28, 2024
Why Birds Matter by Jonathan Franzen
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Feb 8, 2024
A few short thoughts on death...
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Jan 26, 2024
Letter to his 11-year-old daughter in camp by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2023
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Dec 7, 2023
The Very Best Books I Read in 2023
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Dec 6, 2023
7 quotes on the power of reading from Charlie Munger
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Nov 24, 2023
7 books to calm your mind before bed (instead of watching the news!)
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Oct 11, 2023
How to Tell Yourself a Different Story with Seth Godin
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Sep 26, 2023
The Nature of the Fun by David Foster Wallace
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Sep 15, 2023
44 Things I've (Almost) Learned As I Turn 44
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Aug 15, 2023
"The right to the future tense" by Shoshana Zuboff
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Aug 1, 2023
"Leisure" — A poem by W. H. Davies
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Jun 7, 2023
Sparrow Envy - A Poem by J. Drew Lanham
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Apr 11, 2023
Watching the Wheels by John Lennon
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Mar 29, 2023
10 things I (try to) do every day to get more done
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Mar 14, 2023
Watching the Wheels by John Lennon
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Feb 27, 2023
The Mind of Absolute Trust by Seng-ts'an
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Jan 20, 2023
Love for OUR BOOK OF AWESOME
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Jan 17, 2023
Do not ask your children to strive by William Martin
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2022
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Dec 19, 2022
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
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Dec 9, 2022
The Very Best Books I Read in 2022
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Nov 28, 2022
Don't Hesitate by Mary Oliver
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Sep 22, 2022
43 Things I've (Almost) Learned As I Turn 43
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Jun 22, 2022
Dust If You Must by Rose Milligan
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Jun 22, 2022
The Sun by Mary Oliver
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Jun 22, 2022
What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth Grade by Brad Modlin
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Jun 20, 2022
Dreamland by Mark Twain
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May 9, 2022
Two powerful songs about fatherhood by Harry Chapin and John Lennon
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Mar 29, 2022
Quotes On Reading by Marcel Proust
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Mar 9, 2022
"Be Drunk" by Charles Baudelaire
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Mar 1, 2022
By the Well of Living and Seeing, Part II, Section 28: “During the Second World War” by Charles Reznikoff
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Feb 15, 2022
'Maximus, to himself' by Charles Olson
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Jan 18, 2022
'You Learn' by Jorge Luis Borges
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Jan 4, 2022
'Blessing for the New Year' by Kayleen Asbo
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2021
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Dec 27, 2021
'To Laugh Much and Often' by Bessie Anderson Stanley
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Dec 13, 2021
The Very Best Books I Read in 2021
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Nov 26, 2021
'If—' by Rudyard Kipling
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Aug 6, 2021
'On Children' by Khalil Gibran
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Jul 22, 2021
'Think Like a Bronze Medalist, Not Silver' by Derek Sivers
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Jul 21, 2021
How to Embrace the Most Embarrassing Parts of Your Resume
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Jul 15, 2021
'When Death Comes' by Mary Oliver
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Jun 17, 2021
The 3 S’s of Success
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Jun 17, 2021
This Two-Minute Morning Practice Will Make Your Day Better
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Jun 9, 2021
Take More Pictures: The counterintuitive way to build resilience
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May 18, 2021
'Television' by Roald Dahl
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2020
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Dec 11, 2020
The Very Best Books I Read in 2020
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Jun 14, 2020
The 5 Greatest Regrets of the Dying and How to Avoid Them
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May 5, 2020
7 ways to calm your mind and sleep better
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Apr 28, 2020
#985 Being really proud of yourself for using a bit less toilet paper than usual
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Apr 28, 2020
#992 Someone sending you a good idea on how to distract your kids for a solid hour
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Apr 21, 2020
How to Cut All Meeting Time in Half
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Apr 8, 2020
#1002 Any dessert in sandwich form
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Apr 6, 2020
Why we're so bad at predicting what will happen to us in the future
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Mar 17, 2020
25 of the best books to read during Coronavirus
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Mar 10, 2020
49 things to do if you're staying home due to Coronavirus
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Feb 25, 2020
3 steps to developing a happier mindset
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Feb 11, 2020
3 ways money can buy you happiness
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Jan 27, 2020
The secret tool everyone can use to develop self-confidence
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Jan 13, 2020
Why you can’t fully live until you’ve accepted death
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2019
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Dec 20, 2019
7 ways to read (a lot) more books this year
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Dec 17, 2019
21 Awesome Things About The Holidays
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Dec 12, 2019
The Very Best Books I Read In 2019
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Dec 3, 2019
3 Ways To Increase Your Failure Rate To Help Spike Your Learning Rate
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Nov 19, 2019
10 Small Habits To Get More Done Each Day
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Oct 8, 2019
Figure out your dream job by asking yourself this question
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Oct 1, 2019
The Most Surprising Advice On Success I Received From A Harvard Dean
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Sep 23, 2019
Rose, Rose, Thorn, Bud: The simple gratitude game my wife and I play before bed
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Sep 10, 2019
7 Leadership Lessons I’ve Learned From Mel Robbins
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Aug 27, 2019
7 Ways To Reduce Cell Phone Addiction (With Step-By-Step Photos And Instructions)
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Jun 27, 2019
You Need To Take More Vacation … And Here’s How To Do It
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Jun 21, 2019
The Single Principle You Must Practice When Feeling Overwhelmed or Burned Out
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Jun 20, 2019
Here's Why You Need A 'Day of Yes'
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Jun 20, 2019
How To Make More Money Than A Harvard MBA
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Jun 17, 2019
Here's Why You Need A Family Contract (And What To Put In It)
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Jun 4, 2019
19 Great Summer Beach Reads (For People Who Don’t Want To Turn Their Brain Off)
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May 21, 2019
6 Ways To Reduce Cell Phone Addiction
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May 7, 2019
7 Science-Backed Ways To Be Happy Right Now
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Apr 22, 2019
9 of the World's Best Email Newsletters (Actually Worth Clogging Your Inbox For)
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Apr 9, 2019
The Black Hole Inbox: An Incredible Email Productivity Tip I Learned From a Fortune 50 CEO
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Mar 12, 2019
The 3 E's of a Great Speech
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Feb 22, 2019
13 Books To Read If You’re Anxious
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Feb 8, 2019
#1001 When that person you haven’t seen in a while doesn’t guilt trip you for not seeing them in a while
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Jan 20, 2019
Why You Should Never, Ever Retire
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Jan 14, 2019
8 More Ways To Read (A Lot) More Books
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2018
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2017
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2016
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Birds
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Career
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Jul 16, 2024
The Only 2 Questions To Ask If You're Thinking Of Leaving Your Job
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Jun 18, 2024
How To Have More (And Better!) Vacation
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May 21, 2024
Want to beat the algorithm? Don't play the game
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Jul 21, 2021
How to Embrace the Most Embarrassing Parts of Your Resume
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Jun 17, 2021
The 3 S’s of Success
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Jun 9, 2021
Take More Pictures: The counterintuitive way to build resilience
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Apr 21, 2020
How to Cut All Meeting Time in Half
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Oct 8, 2019
Figure out your dream job by asking yourself this question
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Oct 1, 2019
The Most Surprising Advice On Success I Received From A Harvard Dean
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Jun 27, 2019
You Need To Take More Vacation … And Here’s How To Do It
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Jun 20, 2019
How To Make More Money Than A Harvard MBA
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Fear
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Happiness
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Feb 6, 2026
5 ways you can be happier (in 2 minutes or less!)
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Aug 5, 2025
20 Bits of Wisdom From Susan Cain (Author of 'Quiet' and 'Bittersweet')
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Dec 3, 2024
Hermann Hesse on the Wisdom of Trees
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Nov 19, 2024
Oliver Burkeman's eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life
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Nov 5, 2024
A few thoughts on gratitude...
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Sep 24, 2024
More birthday wisdom from readers...
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Sep 16, 2024
45 Things I've (Almost) Learned As I Turn 45
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Aug 27, 2024
A Happiness Tune-Up: My New Interview With Forbes
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Jul 28, 2024
A two-minute evening practice to move nighttime angst into gratitude and peaceful sleep
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Apr 9, 2024
A powerful 2-minute midday happiness intervention...
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Jun 17, 2021
The 3 S’s of Success
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Jun 17, 2021
This Two-Minute Morning Practice Will Make Your Day Better
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Jun 14, 2020
The 5 Greatest Regrets of the Dying and How to Avoid Them
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Feb 25, 2020
3 steps to developing a happier mindset
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Sep 23, 2019
Rose, Rose, Thorn, Bud: The simple gratitude game my wife and I play before bed
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Jun 27, 2019
You Need To Take More Vacation … And Here’s How To Do It
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Jun 20, 2019
Here's Why You Need A 'Day of Yes'
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Jun 17, 2019
Here's Why You Need A Family Contract (And What To Put In It)
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May 7, 2019
7 Science-Backed Ways To Be Happy Right Now
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Jan 20, 2019
Why You Should Never, Ever Retire
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Ideas
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Jun 9, 2026
Cup or no cup, the world is already here by Marcus Gee
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May 12, 2026
My Favorite David Sedaris Essay: "You Can't Kill The Rooster" [Explicit]
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Mar 3, 2026
A reflection on becoming: Kurt Vonnegut's final piece of advice to students
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Jan 20, 2026
Leadership Lessons: Chrystia Freeland’s Goodbye Letter
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Jan 6, 2026
Why Gratitude is a Leadership Superpower: My Interview with the Smith School of Business
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Nov 18, 2025
A gift guide to my books
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Nov 4, 2025
Why we let sports break our hearts
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Sep 16, 2025
46 Things I've (Almost) Learned As I Turn 46
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Sep 2, 2025
65 surprising truths from the world’s most consistent blogger
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Aug 19, 2025
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son
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Jun 18, 2025
20 Things I Would Tell Myself At Age 20
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Apr 22, 2025
2000 years of fighting productivity pressures
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Apr 8, 2025
19 Things I Would Tell Myself At Age 19
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Feb 25, 2025
On our infinite appetite for distraction...
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Dec 28, 2024
Forget New Year's resolutions. Do this instead.
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Sep 24, 2024
More birthday wisdom from readers...
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Sep 16, 2024
45 Things I've (Almost) Learned As I Turn 45
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Feb 8, 2024
A few short thoughts on death...
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Jan 26, 2024
Letter to his 11-year-old daughter in camp by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Dec 6, 2023
7 quotes on the power of reading from Charlie Munger
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Nov 24, 2023
7 books to calm your mind before bed (instead of watching the news!)
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Oct 11, 2023
How to Tell Yourself a Different Story with Seth Godin
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Sep 26, 2023
The Nature of the Fun by David Foster Wallace
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Sep 15, 2023
44 Things I've (Almost) Learned As I Turn 44
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Aug 15, 2023
"The right to the future tense" by Shoshana Zuboff
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Mar 29, 2023
10 things I (try to) do every day to get more done
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Feb 27, 2023
The Mind of Absolute Trust by Seng-ts'an
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Sep 22, 2022
43 Things I've (Almost) Learned As I Turn 43
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Jun 20, 2022
Dreamland by Mark Twain
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Jun 17, 2021
The 3 S’s of Success
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Jun 17, 2021
This Two-Minute Morning Practice Will Make Your Day Better
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Jun 9, 2021
Take More Pictures: The counterintuitive way to build resilience
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Apr 6, 2020
Why we're so bad at predicting what will happen to us in the future
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Mar 10, 2020
49 things to do if you're staying home due to Coronavirus
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Feb 11, 2020
3 ways money can buy you happiness
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Jan 27, 2020
The secret tool everyone can use to develop self-confidence
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Jan 13, 2020
Why you can’t fully live until you’ve accepted death
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Nov 19, 2019
10 Small Habits To Get More Done Each Day
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Sep 10, 2019
7 Leadership Lessons I’ve Learned From Mel Robbins
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Jun 27, 2019
You Need To Take More Vacation … And Here’s How To Do It
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Jun 17, 2019
Here's Why You Need A Family Contract (And What To Put In It)
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May 21, 2019
6 Ways To Reduce Cell Phone Addiction
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Jan 20, 2019
Why You Should Never, Ever Retire
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Nov 27, 2018
Neil Pasricha’s Unconventional Christmas Gift Guide
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Oct 1, 2018
The Power of 1000
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Jun 21, 2016
Avoid Burnout By Asking This Question
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Letters
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New awesome things
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Parenting
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Poems
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Dec 1, 2025
Starlings in Winter (a poem by Mary Oliver)
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Aug 1, 2023
"Leisure" — A poem by W. H. Davies
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Dec 19, 2022
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
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Nov 28, 2022
Don't Hesitate by Mary Oliver
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Jun 22, 2022
Dust If You Must by Rose Milligan
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Jun 22, 2022
The Sun by Mary Oliver
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Jun 22, 2022
What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth Grade by Brad Modlin
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Mar 9, 2022
"Be Drunk" by Charles Baudelaire
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Mar 1, 2022
By the Well of Living and Seeing, Part II, Section 28: “During the Second World War” by Charles Reznikoff
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Feb 15, 2022
'Maximus, to himself' by Charles Olson
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Jan 18, 2022
'You Learn' by Jorge Luis Borges
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Jan 4, 2022
'Blessing for the New Year' by Kayleen Asbo
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Dec 27, 2021
'To Laugh Much and Often' by Bessie Anderson Stanley
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Nov 26, 2021
'If—' by Rudyard Kipling
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Aug 6, 2021
'On Children' by Khalil Gibran
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Jul 15, 2021
'When Death Comes' by Mary Oliver
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Reading
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Mar 31, 2026
10 Inspirational Email Newsletters To Help You Live A Better Life (2.0)
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Dec 12, 2025
The Very Best Books I Read in 2025
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Dec 6, 2024
The Very Best Books I Read in 2024
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Oct 22, 2024
Take a deep breath - Excerpt from from 'Breath' by James Nestor
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Apr 23, 2024
A few pearls of wisdom from John Steinbeck ...
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Dec 7, 2023
The Very Best Books I Read in 2023
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Dec 9, 2022
The Very Best Books I Read in 2022
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Mar 29, 2022
Quotes On Reading by Marcel Proust
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Dec 13, 2021
The Very Best Books I Read in 2021
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May 18, 2021
'Television' by Roald Dahl
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Dec 11, 2020
The Very Best Books I Read in 2020
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Mar 17, 2020
25 of the best books to read during Coronavirus
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Dec 20, 2019
7 ways to read (a lot) more books this year
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Dec 12, 2019
The Very Best Books I Read In 2019
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Apr 22, 2019
9 of the World's Best Email Newsletters (Actually Worth Clogging Your Inbox For)
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Feb 22, 2019
13 Books To Read If You’re Anxious
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Jan 14, 2019
8 More Ways To Read (A Lot) More Books
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Dec 31, 2018
The Very Best Books I Read In 2018
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Dec 31, 2017
Top 10 Reads of 2017
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Resilience
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Service
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Sleep
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The Next 1000
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Time
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Jun 18, 2025
20 Things I Would Tell Myself At Age 20
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Apr 22, 2025
2000 years of fighting productivity pressures
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Apr 21, 2020
How to Cut All Meeting Time in Half
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Nov 19, 2019
10 Small Habits To Get More Done Each Day
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Jun 27, 2019
You Need To Take More Vacation … And Here’s How To Do It
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Jun 21, 2019
The Single Principle You Must Practice When Feeling Overwhelmed or Burned Out
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Apr 9, 2019
The Black Hole Inbox: An Incredible Email Productivity Tip I Learned From a Fortune 50 CEO
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Nov 12, 2018
3 Ways To Fight Cellphone Addiction In Schools
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Oct 1, 2018
The Power of 1000
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Mar 16, 2018
Why You Need An Untouchable Day Every Week (And How To Get One)
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Mar 8, 2016
How to Add an Hour to a Day with Only One Small Change
