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The Freedom of Perspective

Perspective is everything. It is perhaps the most important ability to cultivate since life assaults us intensely and regularly, dragging us down into the details that can be discouraging. Thus, we...

12 Relationship Truths We Often Forget

It’s easy to make your relationships more complicated than they are.  Here are twelve simple reminders to help you keep them on course.All successful relationships require some work....

Lifelong music training may help stave off hearing loss

THE QUESTION Do lifelong musicians face the same hearing problems that other people do as they age? THIS STUDY involved 163 adults, including 74 characterized as lifelong musicians...

A Sharper Mind

By Patricia Cohen IN 1905, at age 55, Sir William Osler, the most influential physician of his era, decided to retire from the medical faculty of Johns Hopkins. In a farewell speech, Osler talked about the link...

Desperately Seeking Simplicity

by Chris Zook The softly drifting snowflakes that greeted me every morning at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year were an inadequate warm-up for the cold blast of reality I felt in session after...

So Much Media, So Little News

By PETER FUNT A group of daily papers in New England calls its electronic edition No Inky Fingers. The point, of course, is that with digital news nothing rubs off on readers' hands. But what's rubbing off...

Your Brain On Happiness

Mindfulness meditation is being rediscovered as a very modern—and medical—path to personal nirvana. by Amy GrossIn July 2008, I retired from my job as editor in chief of O, the Oprah Magazine , a move that mystified a lot of people. Editors tend not to exit willingly. They...

Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch

Get on a Southwest flight to anywhere, buy shoes from Zappos.com, pants from Nordstrom, groceries from Whole Foods, anything from Costco, a Starbucks espresso, or a Double-Double from In N' Out,...

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