The Atlantic
Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
“It’s not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles to…
The Atlantic
4 Rules for Identifying Your Life’s Work
The Atlantic
Why So Many People Are Unhappy in Retirement
The Washington Post
How social distancing could ultimately teach us how to be less lonely
The Washington Post
This holiday season, we can all learn a lesson from Beethoven
The Washington Post
‘Transhumanist’ eternal life? No thanks, I’d rather learn not to fear death.
The Washington Post
Success comes from within. More Americans are realizing that.
The Washington Post
My resentment of going bald is gone. I’m better for it.
The Washington Post
I walked across Spain. Here’s what I learned.
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Harvard Business Review
AEI’s President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
In the summer of 2008 I was happily working as a professor at Syracuse University when I received an unexpected phone call. For the previous…
The New York Times
The Dalai Lama and Arthur Brooks: Behind our anxiety, the fear of being unneeded.
In many ways, there has never been a better time to be alive. Violence plagues some corners of the world, and too many still live…