Dave's Library

Not every opinion is useful.

As we get older, it gets harder to find new friends. Here’s how to break the ice, at any age.

The fast-track to coolness may be a dangerous road.

Psychologists and behavioral scientists are looking more closely at ambiversion—a personality type that can adapt to social or solitary environments.

In some sense, being thankful is a result of life exceeding our expectations.

Even when a dentist kills an adored lion, and everyone is furious, there’s loftier righteousness to be had.

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I don't think we have a calling. I do think it's possible to have a caring. A calling implies that there's just one thing for you, just one thing you're supposed to do. What we most need in our lives,...

Goal-setting closed achievement gaps in a recent experiment. The key element? Students put their thoughts in writing.

The firm tells The Washington Post that it will abandon its old system for all 330,000 employees, starting in September.

What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuin...

“Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.”

For years, motivational speakers have celebrated a Yale study on why people succeed. It’s powerful! Compelling! Too bad it doesn’t exist.

“Tess…started her way up the dark and crooked lane not made for hasty progress; a street laid out before inches of land had value, and when one-handed clocks sufficiently sub-divided the day.”  —Thomas Hardy Imagine your life without time, without a constant sense that you’re running behind, frustrated that yet again you are losing the...

Parents have a better chance of controlling their children’s addiction to texting and gaming if they set aside family times for putting down devices.

When I wrote the first edition of Presentation Zen back in 2007, I said that presentations are better when they are prepared and delivered in the spirit of truly wanting to make a difference and a belief in the power...

I work in a place where nobody calls me by my name.

For 33 years, Paul Shaffer has been the warm to David Letterman's cool, the Ed to his Johnny and the Peaches to his Herb. So what happens when the world's greatest sidekick has to go solo?

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