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Here are twenty powerful secrets that will help you form meaningful relationships with people: When two people meet, the prize always goes to the one with the most self-insight. He will be calmer, more confident, more at ease with the...

If you haven’t seen it, I’ll describe it for you. In a now viral video, writer Marina Shifrin turns the camera on herself at the office around 4:30 a.m. She then proceeds to dance herself out of a job. Throughout...

By: Katrina Schwartz his first day teaching at Coronado Elementary School in Richmond, Calif., students threw rocks at Jean-Gabrielle Larochette, pretending he was a police officer. He spent fifteen minutes of every class calming down a handful of kids in...

BY MEGAN BRUNEAU Many clients come to me believing there is “something wrong” with them. They believe they’re fundamentally flawed, or they're making a last-ditch attempt at life, often with plans to end theirs if things don’t improve. However, more...

By JOHN TIERNEY Martin Seligman now thinks so, which may seem like an odd position for the founder of the positive psychology movement. As president of the American Psychological Association in the late 1990s, he criticized his colleagues for focusing...