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OPIA: the ambiguous intensity of eye contactSo much can be said in a glance. You feel such ambiguous intensity, looking someone in the eye—it’s somehow both intrusive and vulnerable. Their pupils glittering black, bottomless, and opaque.The eye is a keyhole through which the world pours in, and a world spills out. For a few seconds, ...
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I am rich and have no idea what to do with my lifeLife has been a haze this last year. After selling my company, I find myself in the totally
May 2, 2025
“There are certain ways of interpreting and narrating our lived experiences that are associated with flourishing and making meaning,” says Hollen Reischer, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at the University
May 1, 2025
Several generations living under one roof would help ease the housing crunch and the loneliness epidemic affecting half of U.S. adults. It would also cut global warming emissions. Denser living
April 29, 2025
You can watch and listen to it HERE. It was inspiring to ask Rich a few questions since he’s normally doing all the inquiries to his guests. Here are the five
April 28, 2025
Why I Wrote “Un:Stuck: Helping Teens and Young People Flourish in an Age of Anxiety”‘What makes you feel most alive?’ is a question I continue to ask my children. I
April 27, 2025
Our cultural assumptions about creativity tend to lionize youth—think of Mozart composing at the age of five or how we celebrate the disruptive energy of Silicon Valley’s “under 30s.” Yet
April 26, 2025
I love this recent Huffington Post article about Megan Vered who wrote to a wide circle of friends that she’d like to celebrate her 70th birthday doing 70 really interesting
April 25, 2025
But, I found Ross Douthat’s column from this past weekend, An Age of Extinction is Coming, and David Brooks’ What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is
April 24, 2025
There’s social science evidence showing that younger people consistently and markedly overestimate how satisfied they will be in five years, while older people underestimate future satisfaction. Researchers have found that
April 23, 2025
Steven replied, “If we’re lucky, we’ll all get older, but only a few of us will become a true elder.” I laughed it off, but within a half-dozen years, I
April 22, 2025
The eyes may be the window to one’s soul, but the gut is the window to one’s wisdom. The gut is often called our “second brain” for good reason—it holds more
April 21, 2025
I see them everywhere: people standing in elevators, at bus stops, in line at grocery stores—their eyes fixated on their phones. And yes, I’m guilty of this too. I call this having
April 20, 2025
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