He dealt with hardships by turning to philosophy, specifically the Stoicism of the ancient Greeks a…

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"What it boils down to is enjoying hardship and practicing voluntary hardship every day," he explai…

"Meditations" is not a typical philosophical treatise. It's closer to a diary. Marcus wrote the 12 …

In an interview with Backchannel's Steven Levy, Mayer said: "I never play the gender card…the momen…

Branson told us that his mother piloted glider planes, parachuted, and was one of the first air hos…

Another Stanford GSB alum, Patrick Robinson, who is a service design and innovation manager at the …

Resilient people understand that frustrating situations, failures, and tragedies are inevitable par…

Even when Saban achieves a major goal, he doesn't miss a beat and shifts his energy to the next obj…

A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature',…

According to a 1961 Reader's Digest article by Edison's son Charles, Edison calmly walked over to h…

Compare that to exposition in "The Matrix," which is the one good movie I've seen by The Wachowskis…

The reason I chose to study ancient sources of wisdom is because they have survived centuries, and …

Self-made industrialist Andrew Carnegie was the wealthiest man on the planet in the early 20th cent…

Chuo-dai Kashima, a newly developed area in Iwaki where many of the temporary housing units have be…

Another oft-overlooked example is the invention of TeX by mathematician Donald Knuth in 1978. TeX i…

John Harvey and Will Kellogg revolutionized American breakfast. But they were also bitter rivals wh…