Research led by John Antonakis at the University of Lausanne found that targeted…
Charisma has a reputation problem.
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Thought of the day, from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: “The mass of men lead lives…
Years ago in Dublin, I was working in finance and I did the thing you are not supposed to do at your desk.
Why some people maintain an active life into their 70s
The usual story about people who stay fit into their 70s is a story about exceptional character.
Psychology says that many of the friendships we carry into old age are the ones…
The friendships people carry into old age often look, from the outside, like proof of loyalty.
Researchers who study happiness across decades keep arriving at the same…
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.
Why some older adults give meaningful possessions away before they die
When an older adult starts giving things away, the easy reading is that they are preparing to disappear.
Nearly three in ten American households are now a single person living alone — up…
Nearly three in ten American homes now contain exactly one person.
Adults who cook the same five meals on rotation for decades aren’t uninspired…
The person who has cooked the same five meals for thirty years isn't stuck in a rut. They've built something quieter and more durable: mastery of a small domain, and the self-respect that comes with it.
People who wash a mug the moment they set it down aren’t tidier by nature…
Washing a mug the moment you set it down isn't about tidiness — it's a small, repeatable act of self-management that hijacks the brain's avoidance circuitry before it has a chance to fire. The psychology of why the tiniest completions carry disproportionate weight.
Why classroom performance does not capture every kind of practical ability
There's a particular word that gets stapled to certain kids early and never fully peels off.
People who keep the thermostat lower than everyone else in the house finds…
The person who keeps the house two degrees cooler than anyone else finds comfortable isn't being cheap — they came of age when comfort was earned by tolerating a little discomfort first, and their nervous system never quite unlearned the equation.
The hardest part of watching a parent age isn’t the physical decline, it’s the…
The visible losses of an aging parent — the knees, the hearing, the slower gait — are the ones everyone prepares you for. The harder loss is the quiet reversal of the emotional hierarchy, and the moment you realise your voice now lands on them the way theirs once landed on you.