How You Handle No Is How You Handle Life

Here is something most of us have never been told: falling in love was never supposed to be easy, and the fact that it hasn't been isn't a character flaw. It's a design problem. Your biology may be working against you. Your cultural programming works against you. But, more than a ...  Show more

Most of us reach our 40s and discover something unsettling: the ambitions we've been chasing weren't entirely ours. They came from parents, from culture, from the two or three careers we happened to see up close. Tom Rath calls this looking through a pinhole, and he thinks it exp ...  Show more

Today, Inky Johnson shares how life's purpose extends to something bigger than us. Every day that we encounter people is a chance to impact somebody else's life.

We all have a purpose that is bigger than ourselves ...

How someone reacts to you has nothing to do with you. This does not mean that you can walk around trying to piss people off and blame it on them, it means that as long as you’re living a life that is true to yourself, how other people respond to you should not be of any of you ...

In the last few years, it has become increasingly popular for people to share every little aspect of their lives with others. But, when it comes to getting what you want in life, keeping your plans to yourself is a powerful tool. Presidents weekend has just passed, and when I arr ...  Show more

An award-winning writer and activist for LGBTQ rights, mental health, and the arts, Andrew Solomon is adept at reframing misconceptions about what it means to be human. In this moving conversation, Solomon and goop chief content officer Elise Loehnen talk about why we crave excep ...  Show more