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There is a particular kind of desk that looks as if it belongs to two eras at once. A smartphone handles messages, maps, calls and appointments. Beside it sits a paper calendar, open
Stand like a superhero for two minutes before a job interview, and your body chemistry shifts to make you braver. That was the promise of one of the most-watched talks in TED’s history.
There is an oddly revealing moment in modern life: someone needs to remember something, reaches past the phone already in their hand, and looks for a pen. Maybe it is a shopping list.
Marcus Aurelius wrote one of his clearest warnings about ambition in the fourth book of the notes now called Meditations. A person longing for fame after death, he argued, forgets that everyone preserving
For a few years I carried a tidy little fact around. Money stops mattering for happiness once you clear about $75,000. Past that, you are just chasing numbers on a screen. I used
Our thanks to everyone who donates regularly to Dutch News. It costs money to produce our daily news service, our original features and daily newsletters, and we could not do it without you.
An adult can be personable, attentive and capable of affection while still having nobody they would call a close friend. That absence is often read as evidence of poor social skills or a
Resilience is often misread as speed. The person who seems strongest is assumed to be the one who recovers fastest, stays calmest, smiles soonest, and returns to normal before anyone has had time