Kindness isn’t just a feeling—it’s a practice that is learned, cultivated, and grown in everyday moments across school, home, and work. At school, it blooms when students and teachers model empathy by ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

All of us have experienced situations in which we needed more confidence—in the classroom, on the athletic field, at work, on stage, or in our social lives. Along the way, our parents, teachers, ...

Psychologists have recently linked intellectual humility to a host of benefits: showing more persistence in the face of failure, holding less polarized beliefs and attitudes, and being received as ...

When we consider how leaders get to the top, we might think of somebody like Jordan Belfort, the millionaire stock broker portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Wolf of Wall Street. And humility is ...

The 1999 film The Matrix is famous for coining the metaphor of the “red pill.” In the imaginary world of the movie, people live largely in a state of illusion, experiencing a completely managed ...

I recall when, as a teenager, we lived in Springfield, Missouri, where I went to high school. Our neighbor told me that I was a “spitting image” of my dad. Indeed, I admired my dad and wanted to be ...