What to do when the lines between empathy and exploitation get blurry.
Some scales claim to calculate everything from body fat percentage to bone mass—but they have to make an awful lot…
If you never feel fully rested, it could be because you're not getting the right type of rest
It's not like you're going to be using that mug to drink hot coffee all summer anyway.
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Whether you’re addressing a group of people at work, or having a one-on-one conversation with a friend, you have the…
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Girl and Boy Scouts’ work looks great on college applications, and the lessons tend to live with you forever. I…
There’s never been a shortage of fad group fitness trends—from TaeBo to Zumba to pole dancing, and everything in…
For most of my life, my name has been mispronounced or misspelled by seemingly everyone unfamiliar with its cultural…
It’s said that we laugh less as we get older. Sometimes it’s our changing values that alter how much we find funny,…
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A global pandemic likely qualifies as one of the worst possible settings for honing creativity. Contrary to what the…
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Morning routines are an important way to start your day and launch your productivity. We talk about productivity a…
I woke up this morning and suddenly realized that I had yet another game night scheduled for tonight with my…
Exercising during a pandemic is a good, healthy use of your time. Exercising while binging your favorite shows is an…
This is not an easy time to be optimistic. Back in March and April—when most people had only started to grasp the…
Feeling anxious? Even if this moment is a non-anxious moment for you, chances are good that at some point in the…
Until quite recently, I hadn’t finished a book since the end of January. In that sense, I’m not so unusual—a 2018…
When Krysta signed up for the UC Berkeley course The Science of Happiness, she didn’t know what to expect. The…
When I was growing up, my family used the smallest of achievement as reason enough to go out for a celebratory dinner…
After a couple of months in isolation, I began looking for ways to improve our living space in small ways. If I was…
There’s a Kurt Vonnegut quote I’ve been leaning on a lot in 2020, taken from his 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five,…