Hunting and Gathering in the Information Age

Do you use your brain? Do your 21st-century lifestyle and career require you to trade in ideas? Get your body moving, and your brain will get stronger.
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The Slow and Steady Pace of Progress

Making incremental changes in our lives—more good foods, more good habits, a little more dancing, a little more walking—can change the trajectory and get us where we want to go.
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Birds of a Feather, Part II: Frozen Fanatics

If you find something you love doing that’s good for your health, your self-esteem, your sanity, and your spirit, you might become obsessed. You’ll be in good company.
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Forget About Months…What Can You Do in Five Days?

What’s the goal on which you’re working? What could you accomplish toward that goal if you gave it everything you’ve got for five days?
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Moments of Pure Joy

In writing and exercise, sometimes there are moments of pure, unadulterated joy, and no amount of struggle seems too much to endure.
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Laying a Minefield of Metaphors

If we are to thrive, if we are to make the changes we want in our lives, we have to teach ourselves to think about what we’re doing in different terms.
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Psalm for a Midsummer Cold Sufferer

While you’re working on priorities, take care of yourself. Get some rest, drink plenty of fluids. Stay out of the hot sun. Let someone take care of you for a while.
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