Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. His new (already a bestseller!) book How To Be Free: A Proven Guide to Escaping Life’s Hidden Prisons is an extraordinary, raw, ...

One of the biggest gripes I have about my academic field of social science is that it explains a lot about human behavior but is very short on prescriptions for how to live day to day. Even when it ...

I didn’t expect to experience this lesson so clearly the first time I visited a Quaker meeting. About 30 minutes into the shared silence—the community gathered in a circle, each person listening ...

Life is full of ups and downs, good and bad, struggles and triumphs — and the way we act in either situation define how we move through life. As people experience different things, they begin to see ...

Even Albert Einstein agreed with the fifth one. Age takes away many things: taut skin, white teeth, clear vision, ease of movement, suppleness, and the need to be polite. However, it does provide two ...