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Wellbeing
The benefits of compassion in the workplace are manifold — but leaders should retain an intentional focus on mental, emotional, and physical balance.
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"I think happiness is not a smiling face, it's more a smiling soul."
Buddhism has rules for slaying your enemies. But the real surprise is finding out who your enemies actually are.
The road to “uncaged leadership” means reimagining your professional identity and value. Here’s how.
Robert Waldinger, Zen priest and Harvard professor, explains why fulfillment isn’t about reaching an idealized state. It’s found in everyday acts of kindness and compassion.
From “job crafting” to questioning our preconceived ideas about work, there are many ways to fight burnout and disengagement.
Major League Baseball and Ivy League research confirm that tackling well-being is hard work — but well worth the effort.
Upskilling all managers and leaders is imperative if we are to solve the global challenge of poor management.
An alternative vision of the future of work for senior executives might hold a solution to relentless workplace stress.
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From anger to awe: How one woman overcame “debilitating trauma” to conquer a near-impossible 53-hour swim at 64.
People who've never been partnered tend to be less extraverted, less conscientious, and more neurotic.
Today's philosophy students would be justified in asking, "What does any of this have to do with living?"
Self-help often distills philosophical ideas for the modern ear. Sometimes, its better to go back to the source.
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“If we're to be happy at all, it has to be found outside of this notion of pleasure. We have to step beyond hedonia. But the problem is that we risk going too far.”
This supremely simple hack can help you establish good habits, break bad ones, and guard against failure.
Psychotherapist Israa Nasir explains how a “value-aligned life” can help us crush our goals — without being crushed by the need to accomplish more.
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"I think we need a truly open-ended conversation with 8 billion strangers, and what makes that hard to do increasingly is a level of political fragmentation and extremism and
partisanship born of our engagement with these new technologies."
Oxford professor of ethics, John Tasioulas, thinks we should consider the loss of opportunity for “striving and succeeding” that AI is likely to bring.
Rather than allowing technology to exacerbate stress and disconnection, we can use it to actively support our wellbeing.
To maintain momentum and flow, the great novelist Ernest Hemingway didn’t burn himself out — but learned when to put his work down.
The multifaceted nature of company culture is what makes it so challenging — this guide will help you make sense of the complexity.
We spend over a third of our lives at work, yet the global workplace is often not a happy place. The solution may lie with our feelings of attachment.
The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.
Does Platonic love actually exist?