Boots, Tents, Sleeping Bags, and More: How to Choose and Use Outdoor Gear
A fair amount of gear is involved in making a camping or backpacking trip a success, and choosing that gear can be a little intimidating as there are lots of options, and it's expensive to boot.Here t...
19 Elo 202448min
The Habits of Highly Effective Risk-Takers
You may know Nate Silver as an election forecaster. But he’s a poker player as well. And his experiences operating in a world of competition and risk led him to explore what his fellow gamblers, as we...
14 Elo 202443min
Practicing Spiritual Disciplines as an Act of Resistance
To train the body, strengthening its muscles, increasing its cardiovascular health, and improving its agility, you need to do exercises like stretching, running, and lifting weights.To train the soul,...
12 Elo 202458min
The Science of Motivating Your Kids (And Any Young Adult)
If you’re a parent, teacher, coach, or manager who lives, loves, and works with tweens, teens, and 20s-somethings, you know that young people sometimes act in seemingly head-scratching ways, that you ...
7 Elo 202451min
Lose Weight and Keep It Off With Flexible Dieting
When many people try to lose weight, they choose a specific, cookie-cutter diet that claims to be the one true way to shed pounds. My guest says that approach is bound to backfire, and that there's a ...
5 Elo 202448min
How to Resist Group Anxiety and Become a Differentiated Self
When we think about anxiety, we typically think of something that is generated and felt within an individual. But Murray Bowen, a psychiatrist of the mid-20th century, argued that anxiety was also cre...
31 Heinä 202455min
The Vital Skills We’re Losing to Technology (And How to Reclaim Them)
Do moments where you run up against your dependence on modern technology get you wondering about the ways some of your personal capabilities seem to be atrophying?Graham Lee has spent years thinking a...
29 Heinä 202449min
How to Know When It's Time to Break Up With Your Job
You have a relationship with family, with friends, with a romantic partner. You may not have thought about it this way, but you also have a relationship with your job — a quite serious one, in fact; a...
24 Heinä 202449min
