5 Pieces of Essential Life Advice From Seniors
TED Ideas · 6 minEnjoy these insights from older Americans on the key ingredients for a good life, and get inspired to do your own interview.
Enjoy these insights from older Americans on the key ingredients for a good life, and get inspired to do your own interview.
Just because you feel guilty doesn’t mean you’ve done something wrong. Relax the rules you live by and set yourself free.
This is what it takes for a marriage to stay happy over time.
After a year of virtual gathering, getting back to real-life relationships can be intimidating. These eight simple exercises can help.
There’s more to minimalism than just purging yourself of stuff.
It’s about being strategic with your time, to set yourself up for success.
1. They set aside time to make themselves a priority.It's not uncommon for an entrepreneur to let the pull of family, responsibilities and pending tasks keep them from making themselves their first priority. You can't give what you don't have, and that's what too many of us try to do.
For this month’s look-back at “Dear Therapist” columns, I’ve decided to turn not to a specific theme, but to a handful of columns that have been reader favorites over the years. Rereading them, I understand why.
If you’re reading this, there are a million-and-a-half things you want to do: Build your business, exercise more, spend more time with friends and family, read more books, etc. So how do you pack that into a 24-hour day that’s already occupied with sleeping and eating?
We’re wired for attachment – it's why babies cry when separated from their mothers. Depending especially upon our mother’s behavior, as well as later experiences and other factors, we develop a style of attaching that affects our behavior in close relationships.
We all know that waking up early in the morning makes us more productive. Since our childhood, we were taught to follow, “early to bed and early to rise” as a ritual. Waking up at the crack of dawn and starting our day in the right way makes us more productive and purposeful.
When it comes to lasting romance, passion has nothing on friendship.
If you want to make big decisions you won’t regret, it’s important you learn from others who have been there before.
Getting a top-tier MBA has always been an expensive proposition, setting you back something like $200,000 between tuition and living expenses (not to mention lost income). This year there may be even more reason to think long and hard before going to business school.
Getting and staying focused can be a challenge in the best of times. But with everything going on in the world, concentrating can often feel down-right impossible.
We live on a planet with a population of more than 8 billion. And yet, there is still a sense of isolation and anonymity among us.
Keeping your houseplants their healthiest can seem at times to be a complicated endeavor. There are all the ways they can perish if you’re not careful, and lots of conflicting advice, habits, and products about how to care for them.
How do you weigh career options and conversations when you have no real interest in them?
Both science and history tell us that getting your daily routine right is essential for success. No wonder the internet is full of admiring articles about the morning routines of famous people and lists of suggested habits to add to your daily schedule.
The internet is home to all kinds of advice about how to experience consciousness while dreaming. What works?
If you’ve ever putzed around the internet, looking for why your relationships might all be screwed up (and screwed up in the same ways, I might add), then you’ve probably come across Attachment Theory.
After growing up in a family that never lied, I spent decades being off-puttingly truthful.
Although our ability to easily pick up a new skill declines with age, harnessing a specific type of mindset can help you learn effectively as an adult.
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