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Life is not a contest
Last year, I made a New Year’s resolution that, in hindsight, was both vague and overly ambitious. The resolution was “Get better at everything.” The theory behind it was that I’d been slacking off a bit in my twenties, enjoying the social events, short work weeks and lazy Sunday Read More...
More attention, less worry
It’s an understandable reaction when people are told they have cancer: they worry. But in half of all cancer patients, worry slides into depression or an anxiety disorder. That complication disrupts the healing process. Hospital stays are longer and mortality rates are higher among depressed Read More...
The myth of shareholder value
Back when I was a law-school student in the early 1980s, my professors taught me that shareholders “own” corporations and that the purpose of corporations is to “maximize shareholder value.” I was just out of college at the time and not very familiar with the business world, so this made Read More...
When monks rule
Once, long ago, rulers in India kept monks close to their courts. They knew the ascetics’ daily meditations had a calming effect on the populace. The kings took care of the monks so they could care for society. Even in medieval Europe, villages felt protected against robbers in the presence of a Read More...
Say good-bye to ADHD
Twelve-year-old Ruben is sitting on a podium in front of a room full of academics and journalists. He’s beaming, as is his mother beside him, and doesn’t seem the least intimidated by the learned audience. Ruben had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)—past tense. Initially, there Read More...
The three keys to activating your life purpose
Millions of people right now are experiencing a yearning and desire to awaken to their unique gifts and offer them in service to the world—while living a life of joy and fulfillment. It's a surging of the human spirit, a virtual global awakening, at a scale no one has ever seen before. Simply Read More...
From coca to tourism
The Caribbean beaches of northern Colombia are a brilliant white and, aside from the occasional Kogi Indian, deserted. The perfect place for the tourist who isn’t scared off by the Colombian reputation for guns and guerrillas—or by coca farmers. In the mountainous jungle that borders the Read More...
The Goosefoot Revolution
In the sand sits a blue truck. Beside it, bulging sacks wait to be loaded. In a field near the village of Buena Vista in southwestern Bolivia, the quinoa harvest is in full swing. Men lay cut stalks on the ground so they can run over them with the truck. Then they separate the grains from the Read More...
How to restore love
Say someone asks you to dance—but he’s never done this particular dance before and neither have you. While you’re dancing, intense emotions surface in both of you for inexplicable reasons. The result is an overwhelming sense of isolation from your partner. This, says couples therapist Sue Read More...
Thank you
Anne Kubitsky receives lots of postcards. Lots and lots of postcards. That’s not just because the artist and writer from Old Lyme, Connecticut, has so many friends. It’s because she invited others to show their gratitude by mailing it to her. When she launched the Look for the Good Project a Read More...