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Removing the pressure of finding your “dying passion” makes it easier to connect with the “why” of your work.

Being stuck at home is not as intense as being away from Earth, but there are ways to cope in either scenario.

Our live stream with Harvard literature professor Lisa New begins at 1 pm ET today.

How will leadership and hiring practices be changed by the COVID-19 crisis?

When you stop predicting the future and comparing the present to the past, you can reach a beneficial flow state.

When everyone knows and plays their role, it helps the team operate at a higher level.

If you’re right all the time, you’re probably doing something wrong.

Famously, it took Edison over one thousand attempts to successfully create the lightbulb.

Colleges and universities can continue to ignore what the market wants, or they can get in the game and differentiate with new on-ground and online pathways to employment-centric education.

What subjects and ideas do you discuss with your friends when you see them?

Practicing Socratic ignorance, or avoiding certainty of our own knowledge, diminishes inequality and pushes us in our search for wisdom.

Neurons that store abstract representations of past experiences are activated when a new, similar event takes place.

Why finding joy is more easily attainable than the pursuit of happiness.

You can’t really have an opinion if you don’t know all sides of the argument.

How can we promote the creation of new neurons – and why is it so important?

A clean work space, plants, and putting on the right pants all make working from home easier, according to science.

Creating a healthy, cohesive work environment leads to better productivity.

Tech is rising and America’s middle class is vanishing. Here’s what to do.

In such states of creative divergent thinking, the body is aroused and the pupils become dilated.

The costs of prohibition are great, but can people be trusted to make the best decisions for themselves?

Here’s how to exercise your curiosity and truly experience the world.

Through experiencing time in a nonlinear way, can artificial intelligence provide us more perspective?

Disagreements should not equal censorship.

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“One way the internet distorts our picture of ourselves is by feeding the human tendency to overestimate our knowledge of how the world works,” writes philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch.

Striking a better work-life balance comes down to the numbers.

The university model needs to evolve.

Beware of the “fallacy of excessive expertise.”

Effort-focused exercises often lead to better, more innovative ideas.