It’s official: Post-pandemic America is incredibly burned out. “According to Google Trends, which since 2004 has collected data on what the world is searching for, queries for ‘burnout’ — from work, life, and school — are at an all-time high in the US,” Quartz recently reported. Which means there are…

Sites like Inc.com (where I am a daily columnist) celebrate exceptional achievement and aim to help readers pursue greatness, but is super success all it’s cracked up to be? If you knew the real costs (and the roots) of being a household name, would you actually want that life? That’s…

I know it’s not the most pleasant activity, but think for a second about your worst habits, dumbest decisions, and most nagging regrets (go on, experts insist it’s good for you). Some of those missteps were probably due to spectacular miscalculations. Maybe you thought the market for that product was…

Being a parent these days often means running around like a lunatic trying to optimize a million factors related to your kids. What diet is best? What preschool? What stroller? Are you reading to them enough? Discipling them correctly? And how much screen time is too much? Will you accidentally…

If your brain often feels like scrambled eggs these days, then know you’re not alone. Also know that the cure might be something as simple as spending an afternoon surrounded by 100 Post-it Notes. Blame it on the pandemic (and the headlines) “Like a lot of people, I have found myself overscheduled this summer. I’m still doing less…

Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz grew up in a tough housing project. Oprah Winfrey faced horrifying abuse as a girl. Eleanor Roosevelt’s father drank himself to death. Madonna’s mother died of cancer when she was five. These aren’t isolated incidents. According to a fascinating Wall Street Journal article by clinical psychologist…

It often feels like we’re living in the golden age of, well, bullshit. Thanks to social media, political polarization, and our need for constant entertainment, the world feels flooded with half truths, blatant misrepresentations, scammy self-promotion, and absurd Instagram filters. But it’s not just the frustrated public who feel beset…

The internet is chock-full of examples of how the great and good organize their mornings. But the truth is no one can tell you what constitutes the perfect morning routine for you but you. That’s because we all operate differently, with different biological rhythms, different preferences, and different productivity styles…

Very few things flourished during Covid. Meetings are the exception. Both personal experience and various surveys show that time spent in meetings has skyrocketed since knowledge workers left offices en masse two plus years ago. While dueling experts have debated if the shift to working from home has been a…