Wake at a fixed hour, no matter what Sivananda's own day began at 4 a.m. He called Brahmamuhrta, the pre-dawn window between ...

Today's Quote of the Day by the Stoic philosopher-king Marcus Aurelius speaks to a challenge almost everyone faces—dealing with difficult people. His words are nearly 2,000 years old, yet they still ...

Mindfulness is a strategy of calming the mind and the sense of being aware of what our mind is doing in the present moment (Epstein, 2018). Here are 7 lessons mindfulness can teach about improving ...

Over the past five years, my colleague Jeremy Stevenson and I have read more than 100 self-help books, studied over 20 therapies, and extracted and categorized nearly 500 techniques from those sources ...

People who can delay gratification and master their impulses thrive in life. And experts say that you can learn skills to rein in bad habits. By Christina Caron See more of our coverage in your search ...

Psychologist Susan Pinker explores new discoveries in the science of human nature. Read previous columns here. In the early 1980s, a group of psychologists, led by Richard Tremblay of the University ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Do you ever feel like ‘staying on track’ just comes naturally ...

Self-control has long been regarded as one of the strongest predictors of success. Most of us can picture that colleague who never misses a deadline, volunteers for extra projects and keeps everything ...

Every so often, you meet someone who feels different. It's not that they're older or more educated, just wiser. They have a way of approaching life that feels unusually calm, and they often give ...

A scientific squabble over how to define self-control draws from an unlikely source: A story from Greek mythology. Sailing home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, Odysseus longed to hear the Sirens’ ...