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Ten-year-old Dean Thompson drives the combine on his family’s farm, with a little help from his dad. Submitted photo As the sun dipped low on the horizon on a mid-October day, 10-year-old Dean ...

“You only learn half the things you need to know in the classroom.” When I first heard that saying, I brushed it off as something adults said to make school sound deeper than it really was. But now, a ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Robert Waldinger, one of the authors of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study on... Lessons for living a happy life, according to science ...

I didn’t expect to experience this lesson so clearly the first time I visited a Quaker meeting. About 30 minutes into the shared silence—the community gathered in a circle, each person listening ...

Understanding Goodness and Badness in Society Every individual possesses both good and bad traits. However, some people tend ...

It’s a great time to get serious about living a good life. Across the disciplines, the number of scholars engaged in research about happiness and well-being is at its peak, and the wealth of knowledge ...

There's a reason why Gen Xers, the kids who largely grew up in the 1970s, are coined the "latchkey" generation — they were parentified and expected to navigate life largely on their own. With both ...

Life lessons can often feel hard-won. You choose what you think is best—or even most exciting—in the moment, only to realize later on that it may not have been the wisest decision after all. And ...