Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Between my university lectures and outside speeches about the science of happiness, I do a ...

You don't want to find yourself apologizing for the guilt-tripper doing something bad to you, Not letting something go: You know the line "Love means never having to say you're sorry" from the ...

there’s something surprisingly fulfilling about being bad at something and doing it just for fun. What if, instead of avoiding things we aren’t naturally good at, we embraced them? It turns ...

Do you delete them from your playlist in disgust, do you listen with guilt…or something else? WHYY is your source for fact-based, in-depth journalism and information. As a nonprofit organization, we ...

This is a specific example of what turns out to be a broader truth: Doing something you’re bad at can make you better at what you’re good at, as well as potentially making you good at ...