lifelong learning

Being more creative doesn’t require a ‘Muse.’ It’s about pairing intelligence and imagination.

Willpower alone likely isn’t enough to replace a bad habit with a good one.

“A cheap loan is beyond all new destiny.” Does that mean anything to you?

Safety through technology is no bad thing—Nietzsche himself sought doctors and medicines throughout his life—but it can become pathological.

Is college worth it? This question may seem a no-brainer, but there are many reasons why it is worthy of serious deliberation. Here are three.

Volunteering at a food bank, doing a coding workshop, or taking an online course might earn you micro-credentials.

“Who ya gonna believe: me or your own eyes?” Until you can assess your perception, the answer should be neither.

Inflection points veer life in unexpected directions. While unnerving, they provide opportunities for those who can navigate them.

Luck doesn’t fall from the sky. It’s about how you position yourself for life’s challenges.

“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.

Kids’ underdeveloped brains seem to help them acquire new languages with little effort.

One god stands for order, logic, and reason. The other stands for chaos, madness, and drunkenness. Nietzsche thinks you need both.

Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.

We forget how unnatural a lot of formal education is. “Learning how to learn” requires bridging the gap between the abstract and the natural.

The language you speak plays an important role in how you evaluate truth.

Jean Paul Sartre summed up the existentialist idea of “bad faith” through a waiter who acted a bit too much like a waiter.

People can lose their authentic selves when they don’t honestly confront life’s potential, according to the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.

Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs, but even if you can’t join the Great Resignation, you can still pursue a do-over moment.

The power of play: our forgotten lifehack.

To overcome burnout, we need to change how we think about the relationship between dignity and work, argues Jonathan Malesic.

Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.

Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.

Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.

The Chegg cheating scandal reveals a critical need to rethink the student experience in post-COVID education.

“Superjobs” – roles that integrate human and machine skills – will require careful consideration.

In his new book “Courage is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave,” Ryan Holiday explores the virtue of courage and how to overcome fear.

Through self-tracking and self-experimentation, we can greatly improve our cognitive capacity.

Most schools use a semester system, but a new study suggests that they should switch to quarters.

Being an intellectual is not really how it is depicted in popular culture.

More than 70% of college students procrastinate