It’s time to put on your slippers, grab a glass of room-temperature tap water and ease into something a little easier on the ...

Most of us know and value pleasant experiences. We savor the taste of a freshly picked strawberry. We laugh more than an event warrants, just because laughing feels good. We might argue about the ...

It is hard to imagine navigating the streets of the world without help from Google Maps. However, while most of us use the ...

Interesting people have a special magnetism. They tell incredible stories and lead unusual lives. But what exactly makes them so captivating? They’re curious more than anything else. An interesting ...

What makes for a good life? Is it pleasure or enjoying the passage of time, as James Taylor once sang? Or is it more about living life with purpose and contributing to other people’s well-being? While ...

I was talking to a client who is currently a c-suite executive in a Fortune 500 company. As often happens in large political environments, there has been a major restructure, and after discussions, ...

Lorraine Besser received funding for this research from the Templeton Foundation, in coordination with St. Louis University, and from Middlebury College. Imagine it’s Monday morning, too cold and too ...

Everyone has the potential to be interesting. You don't have to be a billionaire, or a CEO, or an astronaut to hold people's attention — you can just be you. It's a question of knowing how to ...

From left: MirageC/Moment/Getty Images; Narongsak Noinash/EyeEm/Getty Images; Jordan Lye/Moment/Getty Images; Justin Dodd/Mental Floss (background) Etymologies can be hard to establish beyond a ...

If you were to draw up a list of the most interesting companies in the world, what would it look like? What exactly makes a company interesting to other people? Perhaps it’s the products they make or ...