I've always been intrigued by the art of pottery. This year was the year I finally made the time to dive into it, and a single trial class quickly turned into a weekly practice. I realized that I ...

Remember Jo Dee Messina? “Life Is Good” is one of her finest country tunes, and its life lesson is pretty direct: Life is just too short to let negativity get in the way of enjoying it. She’s right, ...

Growing up in the '80s and '90s came with a kind of freedom and real-world learning that's hard to explain unless you lived it. Kids were allowed to explore, figure things out on their own, and ...

From embracing simplicity to spending time in nature year-round, Finland offers valuable life lessons—no matter what you think of the World Happiness Report. For the eighth year in a row, Finland has ...

One of the biggest gripes I have about my academic field of social science is that it explains a lot about human behavior but is very short on prescriptions for how to live day to day. Even when it ...

School gets a lot of heat. Too much homework. Too many rules. Too many tests that don’t seem to matter later. And sure, some of that is fair. But school does something quiet and powerful that’s easy ...

Below, Michelle “MACE” Curran shares five key insights from her new book, The Flipside: How to Invert Your Perspective and Turn Fear into Your Superpower. Michelle spent over a decade as a fighter ...