Marcus Aurelius wrote, “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” And while his words are often quoted in business circles as a kind of motivational grit, I think they’re more tender than that…

A few months ago, Harvard released the first of its findings from its $43.4 million Human Flourishing Study—one of the most ambitious investigations into well-being ever conducted. Spanning 22 countries and over 200,000 people, its most unsettling revelation was this…

For the last few months this space has asked: What does it really mean to flourish? Not just to succeed—but to feel deeply without numbing. But the truth is: Flourishing is no longer the edge. The edge is this question: How far can we take this human thing?…

Last month, we touched on the idea of the Self—capital S. The Self is not the personality we’ve refined. Not our habits, our hustle, or the curated version of us we offer to the world. That Self sounds poetic in theory. But what why does it matter?…