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In 1938, a Harvard study began following 268 sophomores, among them a young John F. Kennedy. Nearly 90 years on, their lives have weighed in on a question Aristotle, Epicurus and Seneca pondered: do we need other people to live well?
The art of not taking things personally: 8 lessons from the Stoics
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Parents are only as happy as their least happy grown child. Research suggests one adult child who is struggling can weigh on a parent for years, and the other kids’ successes don’t make up for it.
Hiroo Onoda kept fighting World War II in a Philippine jungle for 29 years, dismissing leaflet after leaflet saying the war was over, and only laid down his rifle in 1974 when his former superior, by then a bookseller, flew out to order him to stop
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Akihiko Kondo's unofficial 2018 wedding to the virtual singer Hatsune Miku, a hologram on his shelf, cost about 2 million yen. Can a partner who can never say no be one?
The Cynics argued that much of what society calls success is a performance we trap ourselves in. Modern psychology has a quieter echo — we worry far more about how we appear to others than the evidence says we need to
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