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Treating “oniomania” or compulsive buying disorder is about protecting your finances as well as your mental health.
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FIRE is a lifestyle that promotes extensive saving in order to retire early, despite the fact that early retirement is far from practical.
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At this event, you’ll be around to hear the eulogy.
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Americans without friends have increased 400% in recent years. Here’s why.
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Your sexual education was probably inadequate. Here’s the information you always needed.
Yoga is more than just standing on your head. It's about uniting with the divine.
As improving biotech offers us longevity, we can prepare to live much better as we age.
Research shows that spending more time on social media is associated with body image issues in boys and young men.
Success is about give and take — with a little more give.
The golden rule of self-compassion: Treat yourself with the same kindness you treat others.
To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.
Without the time to mentally disengage from work, people can slip into burnout.
Some experiences continue to pay dividends time and time again.
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Researchers watched for signs of withdrawal — but didn't find any.
Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.
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Warm relationships protect your mind and body from the slings and arrows of life.
When we don't find ways to relieve chronic stress, personal burnout is the likely consequence.
It may be possible to give people the tools to withstand difficulty before it attaches to them.
Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.
You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.
If you want to sleep more, try working less, eating better, and exercising more. Alternatively, you could emigrate to Albania.
The concept of burnout is nothing new. But there are ways to prevent burnout and promote greater engagement with work.
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Deep secrets don’t explode. They do something worse, explains Michael Slepian.
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
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This scientist collected thousands of secrets. They all had 3 things in common.
You only have 4,000 weeks of life. Use them wisely.
"Downward counterfactual thinking" — that is, imagining how things could be worse — is a quick and easy way to boost your well-being and gratitude.
Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance.