What struck me wasn't the stuckness itself—it was how invisible the pattern was to her. She didn't experience herself as ...

I have a friend who is, by every visible measure, one of the most social people I know. She’s the one who talks to strangers at parties. Who remembers everyone’s names. Who can walk into a room full ...

The U-shaped happiness curve dictates that "happiness rises initially to a peak around age 30 and then declines into midlife and then rises again after age 70," according to David Blanchflower, a ...

The latest National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) report shows that the labor market appears to be in a holding pattern for people with disabilities and people without disabilities, as the ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Last Tuesday, Nadia — a 34-year-old graphic designer in Portland — stood in the shampoo aisle for eleven minutes.

Curiosity motivates us to find new understanding. It fuels learning and helps us persevere to discover new insights about how things work and (most of the time) how we can make things work better. In ...

One common behavioral pattern I have seen over and over again among people who are unable to lose weight or otherwise manage their health is the People Pleaser. A People Pleaser is one of the nicest ...

“To emerge from the culture of silence is to find one's voice, to rewrite the self and to become visible.” – Leny Mendoza Strobel, in her book Babaylan A PLACE OF HER OWN, or PLACE, an art collective ...