The Best of Art of Manliness

Studies show that people remember the beginning of something, and the end of it, the best. The middle of it is recalled a little more hazily. Once a novel experience starts, your brain really starts…

«In a social situation, accompany your first thank you with an appreciation for something specific you enjoyed about the event»

Whether you’re moving across town or across the country, there are a lot of factors to consider in deciding where to live. To figure out which factors to prioritize, it can be helpful to use what we…

«Under the 90/10 Rule, you base where you should live on the factors that will affect 90% of your life.»

For the ancient Greeks, eudaimonia was considered the highest human good. While the word doesn’t easily translate into English, it roughly corresponds to a happy, flourishing life — to a life well…

In the United States, over sixty percent of people live a sedentary lifestyle. A quarter of the population gets no physical activity at all. Maybe you’re one of these sedentary folks. Physical…

«Dr. Daniel O’Neill, author of Survival of the Fit, defines “physical identity” as the innate human drive we’re all born with to move our bodies through space»

When it comes to the biggest problems in modern Western society, things like obesity, anxiety, depression, and of course, COVID-19, surely rank near the top of the list. Every year, the United States…

Sleep is a weird thing. For several hours at night, we temporarily become unconscious and immobilized while having intermittent bouts of hallucinations. Weirdness aside, sleep is essential for our…

«While melatonin tells you when to get ready for sleep, it isn’t the primary driver of sleepiness. That’s the role of another molecule: adenosine. It’s adenosine that actually makes you feel sleepy.»

We all need sleep to maintain our physical and mental health and perform our best. So it’s unsurprising that there’s no shortage of content out there about how to improve your sleep. Unfortunately, so…

No one likes a person who just talk about themselves. Avoid conversational narcissism with these tips.

Everyone has some bad habits, and they nearly always involve doing something too much. Eating too much, drinking too much, buying too much, looking at your phone too much. Why do we have such a…

Started in 1938, the Harvard Study of Adult Development represents the longest longitudinal study on happiness ever conducted. It set out to follow a group of men through every stage of their lives,…

«Some people are more inclined towards physical and social fitness than others, but everybody needs them all the same»

The purpose of the spiritual discipline of study is to take knowledge from head to heart -- to incorporate it into our bones so that it transforms us.

We’ve all had plenty of firsthand social experience. We all know how good it feels to be complimented, appreciated, reached out to. Yet when we contemplate directing such behaviors toward others, we…

Have you ever noticed that at your office or church, a small fraction of people do the lion’s share of the work? This is just one manifestation of what’s called the “80/20 rule.” Once you understand…

«“the vital few” produce the lion’s share of results in life.»

In one of the emails Oliver Burkeman, author of Time Management for Mortals, sent out to his subscribers, he talked about how we typically treat our to-do lists like buckets that we need to empty…

«Try trusting yourself that if a task is important, you’ll eventually want to do it. And that if you never want to do it, it may not actually be important.»

We probably think we use social media as an entertaining distraction. But the deeper drive underlying our urge to keep scrolling is the simple fear of missing out. We ever feel we’re one swipe away…

«Trust that over thousands of years, humans have developed avenues — conversations, books, podcasts — that offer sufficient exposure to ideas that will optimize your thinking and creativity, while not sabotaging the attention span necessary to synthesize those ideas into something useful and original.»

A recent survey by the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that reading for pleasure among kids is at an all-time low. The decline is, no surprise here, likely attributed to the…

«Get them a library card. Most libraries allow your kids to get a library card when they’re fairly young. Get your kid one and take them to the library frequently.»

A lot of people go into marriage with a 50/50 mindset. Everything in the relationship — from tangible things like childcare and chores to intangible things like the effort and energy needed to keep…