Self-Help & Human Psychology

In the early hours of Friday night, a college community was shaken by something no one ever expects and everyone eventually fears. Two student athletes, a young soccer player and his girlfriend, were killed instantly by a drunk driver traveling the wrong direction on the road as they were driving back to campus from his parents’ home, about an hour away. One moment they were returning to a life still unfolding, the next, they were gone. There is no clean way to transition fro

The thread is simple… competition isn’t the problem, worshipping it as the only game worth playing is. We live in a culture that worships competition. From the youth soccer field to the college classroom to the boardroom, we’re told that winning is the only currency that counts. But what happens when we push it too far? This piece pulls back the curtain on the hidden costs of our obsession with being first—how it shapes our kids, distorts education, corrodes mental health, an

Let’s admit it, the modern marketplace runs on aspiration. Scroll through your feed and you’ll find yourself drowning in it, six-word...