Personal Growth

The first step to managing your own body language is to forget about your body language and focus on your intent. What do you want to happen? Focus on that first, says Nick Morgan.

Successful female leaders tend to act like role models, inspiring and encouraging others. These qualities are make them better suited as leaders of the organizations we’ve developed in the modern […]

What is the language switch? It’s like feeling that unexpectedly, you have a button in your brain. When you push it you can get thoughts straight to your target language.

To beat procrastination, you need to increase your motivation to do each task on which you are tempted to procrastinate. Don’t try to eliminate procrastination—find a balance.

We are all caught up in a crazy arms race to send our kids to prestigious colleges, where the order of the day (to borrow a useful term from the Cold War) is “escalation dominance.”

Sometime during the next couple of years, there will likely be a fundamental shift (which) could lead to food and water shortages — and test our personal and community preparedness.

In a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week, the organizers pitted Larry Summers against Prof. Chua, perhaps better known as The Tiger Mom.

Why do we underestimate others’ misery while knowing most of our own negative experiences happen in private, and we frequently put on a brave, happy face when socializing?

As wealth increases, the choices of adults play a much smaller role in determining the mental ability of their children. Parents may think they’re sculptors, but the clay is mostly set.

The evidence is all around us that Americans are struggling—and often failing—to uphold their preferred desires. New precommitment devices oblige you to protect your long-term interests.

Would we celebrate this tableau of human good nature so enthusiastically if we did not also fear, somewhere in our hearts, that we might have reacted differently?

In response to a Chinese mother’s strict parenting advice, one Western mom explains the virtues of letting kids quit, having sleepovers and finding their own way.

In the aftermath of a global recession and extreme political unrest, renowned author and teacher Deepak Chopra, M.D., believes it’s time for a different kind of leadership.

It wasn’t until 6th grade that I recall first hearing Martin Luther King Jr. speak. Mrs. Crume was my social studies teacher (interestingly enough, she was also the wife of […]

There is a point in every child’s development where he begins to realize that the content of his parents’ minds is different than that in his own, says author Malcolm […]

Understanding the neurobiology of religious belief is a far cry from explaining it away.

After seven months, The New York Times’ series on philosophy closes today. Simon Critchley reminds us what questions philosophy seeks to answer, such as, “What is knowledge?”

John Stuart Mill, in his classic defense of liberty, argued that each individual is the best guardian of his or her own interests. But recent research suggests that we can use some help.

The beginning of the year is a great time to reflect on what you really want to be doing. Here are a few suggestions for finding ways to do what you love, and still pay the bills.

Raising money from people who are passionate about a particular cause is easy, but how do you convince those who have no connection to an issue to give their time and money?

The quintessentially British tradition of taking a year off between high school and university is becoming popular in the U.S. where teens seek to broaden their horizons.

Who did we under-appreciate in 2010? In the endless whirr of 24/7 corporate news, the people who actually make a difference are often trampled in the stampede.

One thing a school might be doing in generally educating the student is teaching him or her appropriate patterns of responsible civic behavior, says Harvard professor Sean Kelly.

Perhaps being a procrastination addict isn’t such a bad thing. There may be surprising benefits to putting things off, says Columbia Business School professor Eric Abrahamson.

A quirky legion of idea peddlers has quietly invented what might be a new discipline and is certainly an expanding niche and it’s based on the conclusion that we need help thinking.

We’ve tended to focus on the negative, the idea that people can bring out the worst in each other. There’s also evidence that groups can bring out the best in us.

Science has called this discovery the most significant scientific advance of 2010. Back in March, a group of researchers designed what is effectively the first quantam gadget.

Can modern science help us to create heroes? That’s the lofty question behind the Heroic Imagination Project, a new nonprofit started by Stanford psychologist Phil Zimbardo.

The CFR Asia studies director lists the top thought leaders driving the country forward.

A new biography reminds us that the late, great German violinist Adolf Busch should also be remembered as leading the short list of musicians who refused to kowtow to Adolf Hitler.