Good Life Project

What if there was a single trait that was a virtual unlock key for an extraordinary life?

Ok, maybe there's not a single magic trait, but there is something I've observed that seems to be omnipresent …

After years of launching, building and selling technology ventures, Brad Smith was at a crossroads. Starting almost accidentally, he parlayed a self-taught expertise in computers and then design into…

It was a moment that nearly brought me to tears...

As an entrepreneur, a writer, a creator, a big part of why I do what I do is simply the hardwired need to create. I do the thing I "can't not do."

The…

In January 2013, Susan Cain published a book that would spark a global conversation and change the world. Her stunning, international bestseller, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't …

One the fastest ways to accelerate your growth, personal or professional, is to seek out and ask for guidance from mentors. People who've been where you're looking to go and are open to sharing their…

Want a job at Google, a gorgeous hideaway on Airbnb, a spot on the Stanford faculty, a romantic partner or even a kidney?

Good news, bad news. You have a say, but so do they.

It's all part of a phenome…

You want to be a better writer, write and study the craft of writing. Want to be a better maker, make more stuff and study the art of making. Want to be a better entrepreneur, build more businesses a…

Tamsen Fadal is an award-winning broadcast journalist and television anchor on the evening news in New York City.

She's worked incredibly hard to get where she is, traveling the world, entering war-zo…

You wake up one day with pain in your lower back. Happens to the best of us.

Popular wisdom says, “oh, you’ve got lower back pain, you need to strengthen your abs to support your back and it’ll go awa…

What if you could instantly trace your connection through an online family tree to nearly anyone on the planet?

Put another way, what if every person alive was your cousin?

Enter A.J. Jacobs, the maste…

How often have you told yourself, "I'm not good enough, old enough, accomplished enough, credentialed enough, or any other 'enough' to get paid real money or get the gig I want more than anyone else?…

You can lose almost any part of your body, except one, and still be you.

What is that one exception? Your brain.

Because...

The brain is the seat of your memory and your identity.

Which is why brain inju…

It’s not the box society puts us in that limits who we become, it’s the box we put ourselves in.

There's no secret to success. No magic bullet. No pixie dust. Success in any endeavor is about doing th…

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"Brand is the exhaust fume of the engine of your life…

"Don't make people work to learn what you know."

Today's short and sweet Good Life Riff is about the increasing value of ease and simplicity in a world that seems designed to overwhelm and pummel.

It s…

"The creative act is surrendering to not knowing."

There's this scene I have etched in my mind. This week's guest, Cynthia Morris is dancing around a fire in Costa Rica, giggling mercilessly, utterly …

After years of paying to wear your favorite shoes, you're getting paid to be seen in them.

After years of speaking for free and paying to travel, you're now getting paid to speak.

After years of buying…

Imagine this...A financial genius spends his life developing a complex financial model with the intention of telling you what stocks to buy and sell, and when, in order to make the most money and min…

When you watch kids create something, it's like watching an artist who is given complete permission to explore, experiment, and express. There's no sense of censorship or fear of judgment...at least …

In February 2006, Sir Ken Robinson stepped onto the TED stage and delivered a scathing indictment of the modern educational system, entitled "How Schools Kill Creativity." That talk exploded into the…