Jerry Seinfeld's Intense Dedication to His Craft

Some people make their craft look easy, but there are often years of discipline and practice behind their craft. Consider the comedian Jerry Seinfeld. ...

Best-Selling Rap Star Rages Against Absent Father

With eleven Grammy awards, Eminem is the biggest-selling rapper of the last decade. So it is clear the message in his style of music is resonating and ...

NFL Quarterback Says Performance Requires Going on Autopilot

Any skill, art, or good habit requires more than knowledge. It also requires hours of training and practice. For instance, when Alec Baldwin asked NFL ...

Conquering Yosemite's Impossible El Capitan Required New Levels Of Perseverance

On January 14, 2015, after nearly three weeks of exhausting and relentless climbing, Kevin Jorgeson and Tommy Caldwell reached the top of the El Capitan ...

C.S. Lewis Talks to a Dog About Lust

People sometimes think of Christian morality as a straitjacket—as if God gave us random commands that we must keep in order to prove our devotion ...

Apps Track How We Fail to Keep New Year's Resolutions

Based on data from the online grocer FreshDirect, many customers fail to keep their New Year's Resolutions. The retailer recently reported that customers' ...

Stats and Stories About New Year's Resolutions

The website Statistics Brain recently (October 2016) posted the following stats on New Year's Resolutions:

• Percent of Americans who usually make New Year's Resolutions—45%

Young Artist Sees People in Whole New Light

In his book My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok's main character is an awakening artist, beginning to see the world with a different perspective. The author ...

Blacksmith's Ancient Swords Illustrate Excellence

In his book Deep Work, author Cal Newport provides an example of excellence—a blacksmith from Wisconsin named Ric Furrer. Furrer specializes in ...

Skydiving without a Parachute

Much of the world looks upon the adrenaline junkies who jump out of "perfectly good airplanes" as crazy, but jumping from 25,000 feet without ...