— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy)

“Follow your passions”? Not so fast.

To get happier, be brave, not reckless.

“I don’t know who needs to hear this but Neil Diamond, who retired from performing five years ago because of Parkinsons, just had a Broadway show of him open and it at the opening night he did this”

Can't stop thinking mean thoughts about yourself? Researchers and psychologists share how to break the cycle.

Grief is common when you leave a job you love.

Reducing yourself to any single characteristic, whether it be your title or your job performance, is a deeply damaging act.

People who spent more time in nature these past two years have been happier and less stressed.

Our lives are loud — and too often it costs money to escape the noise.

An irreverent conversation about hope between journalist Wajahat Ali and theologian Kate Bowler. They speak to this moment we’re in through the friendship they found on the edge of life and death that is cancer — Wajahat through his young daughter; and Kate with a stage 4 diagnosis at the age of 35 that she’s chronicled in a beloved memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved). Their conversation is rich with practical wisdom for facing uncertainty and mortality, losses we did not foresee, and new beginnings we would not have chosen. This is the first in a new series, The Future of Hope — a beautiful array of voices, former guests on this show, having the conversations they want to be hearing in this time.

Studies show prolonged isolation takes a toll on our memory and attention. Fortunately, there are small steps you can take to mitigate lockdown brain

Scott Gimple joins Kai Ryssdal for this installment of "Corner Office" from Marketplace.

A South Korean service is offering free funerals - but only to the living.

Too many of us expect our jobs to give meaning to our lives. There is a better way.

The business unit was doing well, but the employees were sad. Could data offer a clue?

Here’s how to make the most of it.

Do you have any regrets? Most people do. But it appears our regrets gain a lot of weight as we approach the end of our lives.

People are more likely to choose satisfaction—the long-term feeling that comes with achieving your goals.

The downfalls of trying to control what is not ours to control.

We all have regrets--opportunities we've missed and things we wish we'd done differently. What if we knew now what our biggest regrets would be and had the chance to avoid them? In a way, we do.

One day a year isn’t much to spend honoring the folks that built everything. One day a year for the more than twenty that died from the heights and in the caissons as they built the Brooklyn …

The only way to really know how to make your life awesome would be to follow a lot of people for their entire lives and see what works. Luckily somebody did...

Are your friendships giving you a boost or bringing you down?

Being happy involves not shying away from pain, misery or distress.

Don’t hit snooze on this game changer.

How do you know when trouble is on the horizon in your organization? What are the tell-tale signs, the canaries in the coal mine, if you will? When I was a young management consultant, conventional wisdom said that a leading indicator was something easily measurable like rising inventory or declini

Social media make it seem as if meaningful lives are the extraordinary and attention-grabbing ones. That’s rarely the case.

Pinkcasts: short, informal, low-fi videos offering tips, recommendations, or whatever happens to be on my mind. Sent on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month.