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2650: It's OK to Like Your Culture

It's OK to like your culture. It's OK to love your country. And it's OK to appreciate what previous generations built without pretending they were perfect. Imagine your

2649: Work and the Grace of God

“Pray as though everything depended on God, work as though everything depended on you.” That line captures so many of the great tensions of life all at once. Ultimately

2648: Nutritionally Illiterate: Was the Death of Home Ec the Death of Us?

We talk constantly about financial literacy. But what about nutritional literacy? Think about how strange this is: You can spend the first 18 years of your life being f

2647: Finding Your Own Good, Your Own Way

Finding Your Own Good, Your Own Way We've gotten extraordinarily good at manufacturing pleasure — food engineered for the next bite, apps engineered for the next scroll,

2649: Escaping Modern Slavery: Opt Out of Dependency

Are you actually free? You can have a good salary, a nice house, two cars, every convenience imaginable—and still be completely dependent on your next paycheck. And mon

2648: Start Walking Away: Some Things Can't Come with You

Maybe freedom isn't being able to do whatever you want. Maybe freedom is being able to NOT do what you want. To put the phone down. To not buy the thing. To skip the

2647: Are You a Terrible Person? Do Your Part

LifeBlood: Are you a terrible person? Probably not. But how would you know? Character isn't only revealed by the enormous decisions we make. It's revealed by the tiny t

2646: F@#K You I Won't Do What You Tell Me: Rage Against the Right Machine

What if the most rebellious thing you can do today is think for yourself? We live in an outrage economy. Every headline is an emergency. Every controversy is existential

2645: Where the F Am I? What to Do When You're Feeling Lost

LifeBlood: Ever look around at your life and wonder, “Where the f#&k am I?” Not geographically. In your life. Maybe your career isn't where you expected it to be. Your

2644: Better Tolerance: Not Everything is Life or Death

LifeBlood: We live in a world that increasingly pushes us toward black-and-white thinking: good or evil, right or wrong, friend or enemy, us or them. But human beings ar

2643: The Work of Life is Inside: The Joy of Life is Outside

LifeBlood: The work of life is inside. The joy of life is outside. We spend a lot of time searching outside ourselves for the missing piece—the relationship, money, succ

2642: Family: The Most Important Thing You'll Ever Build

LifeBlood: We spend enormous amounts of time building careers, businesses, résumés, investment portfolios, and net worth. But what are all those things supposed to be for

2641: Number Your Days: You've Only Got So Many of Them

LifeBlood: There are only about 50 Saturdays in a year. An 80-year life contains roughly 4,000 weeks. Your kids will only believe in Santa for a handful of Christmases.

2640: Shop Different with Ron Johnson

LifeBlood: We talked about Ron's career journey from Target to Apple to JCPenney, the current state of physical and omnichannel retail, go-to-market strategy, relationshi

2639: The Fiction of Instant:Why Everything Takes Longer than We'd LIke

LifeBlood: We've been sold the fiction of instant. Next-day delivery. Food on demand. Buy now, pay later. Endless entertainment at our fingertips. We've engineered waiti

2638: Raising Strong Sons and Daughters: Preparing Them to Holdout When Necessary

How do you raise children who are strong enough to stand alone? Someday, your son or daughter may find themselves in a room where everyone else believes one thing—and th

2637: How to Find World Peace: It's Easier Than You Think

LifeBlood: World peace feels like one of humanity’s biggest and most impossible challenges. But what if we’ve been starting in the wrong place? Mother Teresa is widely c

2636: Faithfulness Over Success: Become a Good Steward

LifeBlood: What if the goal of your life isn't to become great? We're encouraged to dream big, achieve more, build something extraordinary, and make our mark. And there’

2635: The Right Person to Lead: How to Stop Electing Morons

LifeBlood: Who is actually the right person to lead? The smartest person? The strongest? The most empathetic? The toughest? The most experienced? Maybe we're asking the

2634: What's the Way Forward? How to Take Action in Uncertain Times

LifeBlood: What’s the way forward? For starters…it’s forward. You cannot change the past, reclaim lost years, or undo what happened to you. You can forgive, learn, accep