Anxiety means we’re doing too much and overthinking. Slowing down consciously helps with this. According to research from the University of Cambridge, meditation can also help ease the stress caused ...

It may not be happy or fulfilling, but it can still be a good life. We all want to experience a "good life." Though we may have different definitions of what this means, it generally includes building ...

Education is being polarized by advocates on the left and right, but students' learning should not be limited to mastering ...

Is there a secret to living a better and happier life? In The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, Robert Waldinger, M.D., and Marc Schultz, Ph.D., co-directors ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Robert Waldinger, one of the authors of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study on Happiness. If you could change one thing about your life ...

Mike Birbiglia has mined his medical, emotional and existential crises for long-form comedic storytelling for the better part of two decades. This time, however, the stakes feel somehow more vital as ...

The bromide has it that a liberal is a person who won’t take his own side in an argument. To this we might add a corollary: there is a certain kind of conservative pundit who has never really had a ...

But what a good life looks like and how to create it have been existential questions pondered for millennia by philosophers, some of whom have offered abstract or difficult-to-obtain perspectives on ...

Eighty percent of American children grow up with at least one brother or sister—more than the number of kids living with their fathers. Yet, for more than a century, psychological research has largely ...

U&Gold has slated the feature-length retrospective special The Good Life: Inside Out to celebrate 50 years since The Good Life’s debut. The one-off 120-minute special is set to air on U&Gold later ...

“Good life” courses can help prepare students to live more purposeful, meaningful lives, write Kristina Callina, Alicia Lynch and Michael Murray. Over the past 20 years, well-being indicators among ...