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The evidence on the other side is harder to set aside.
Jul 11, 2026
A 20-year study of more than 700 children found that how a five-year-old got on with others predicted adult employment and college graduation, holding up even after early reading level was taken into account.
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We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or therapists.
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Charisma has a reputation problem.
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The loneliness that arrives in midlife is often not a sign of failing at relationships. It tends to fall on the people who spent two decades being the reliable one, and left no room for themselves.
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Every time you type a question into a chatbot, the reply feels weightless.
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The 2020 flash set a distance record, but the WMO committee’s recommendation to remove a one-second definition limit had been published years earlier.
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The usual story about people who stay fit into their 70s is a story about exceptional character.
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The friendships people carry into old age often look, from the outside, like proof of loyalty.
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The uncomfortable part of happiness research is not that money fails to matter, or that relationships fail to matter, or that health fails to matter.
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When an older adult starts giving things away, the easy reading is that they are preparing to disappear.
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