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Self-Help vs. Shakespeare: Which Is Better Therapy?
Reading challenging passages of old-fashioned literature and poetry “light up” your brain more than reading the same concepts translated into…
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Your 2013 Resolution: Help Yourself by Helping Others
For many of us, a new year brings lots of resolutions and hope for personal change in those early days…
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Why My Toddler Doesn’t Need an Award from Her Gym Class
A few weeks ago, my sixteen-month-old daughter received a “super star award” upon completion of her Gymkhana toddler gym class.…
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Self-Help for Recessionary Times
I’d never heard of Cheryl Strayed, a.k.a. Sugar, before I read this weekend’s piece in The Atlantic.com, but anyone described…
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Is Pop-Neuroscience the New Self-Help?
In The New Statesman this week author and journalist Steven Poole argues that practical applications of brain research—from popular books…
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Q&A with Slate’s Advice Maven, Emily Yoffe
As the author of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column, Emily Yoffe deals with moral dilemmas and human failings on a daily basis.…
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Is Self-Compassion the Key to Happiness?
You know it’s a late-August vacation week when The Wall Street Journal runs a story, video and interactive chart on…
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Your Defining Decade: A 20s Back-to-School Primer
It’s been a rough summer for the everyone-gets-a-trophy generation. English teacher David McCullough, Jr. told the graduating class at Wellsley…
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Burned By Bad Self-Help
What would you do for spiritual enlightenment and personal success? Would you walk barefoot over 1,000-degree hot coals? Would you…
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Stephen Covey (1932-2012)
Yesterday, self-help author and business leader Stephen Covey died at 79. Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (and many…
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School Schmool: Before Tumblr, Founder Made Mom Proud. He Quit School–New York Times
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Loneliness and Suicide–Ross Douthat/New York Times
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It’s Time to Redefine Success: Arianna Huffington’s Commencement Address at Smith College–Huffington Post
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