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Some people have ambition while others don't. But ambition isn't required for happiness. So, does ambition serve a purpose? Ambition is beneficial when it originates from your own desire. Ambition can be detrimental if it is externally imposed on you by another person...

Not long ago, people would confidently declare, "That'll happen when pigs fly!" It was shorthand for "never," an amusing way of saying something was utterly, completely, and spectacularly impossible. Fast forward to today, and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if there’s a startup somewhere developing jetpacks for swine...

" He who never made a mistake never made a discovery." - Samuel Smiles Although no one wants to, we all make mistakes. It's virtually unavoidable. Mistakes have a stigma associated with them. To many people, mistakes are synonymous with failure, and no one wants to be labeled a failure...

Ah, the 4-way stop—the intersection where time stops, logic crumbles, and humanity's faith in each other is truly tested. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of traffic, where even seasoned drivers with GPS assistance lose their bearings and suddenly forget how to function as rational beings. If you’ve ever approached one of these road conundrums, you know exactly what I’m talking about. First, let’s talk about the universally ignored rule: “First come, first served”...

Around 2000, I traveled to Cape Town, South Africa for a wedding. It was less than a decade after Apartheid ended. My family and I stayed at a friend of a friend’s luxurious home. It sat on a high hill in a wealthy neighborhood. Exquisitely built into that hill, the house offered amenities like I’d never seen. The window in the bathroom looked down on the city and a stretch of beautiful beach. While you soaked in the deep tub, you could watch the waves roll in in. The floors were covered in smooth and polished stone.

As a reader of this column, you are striving to improve your life. You want to attain your goals and bring your dreams into reality. You want to break through your self-imposed limitations. So you follow all of the advice in this column. But you think nothing is working. ...

Why do you have an aversion to certain people? Even if you are a saint, not everyone will be in harmony with you. There are various reasons why you may dislike a particular person. It may be because someone dislikes you, treats you rudely, disagrees with you, takes advantage of you, is inconsiderate, has different opinions, is mean, acts unfriendly, is manipulative, is deceitful, or is malicious. ...

There’s a peculiar phenomenon that strikes those of us who wear glasses—a mysterious occurrence that defies logic, common sense, and sometimes even the laws of physics. I'm talking, of course, about the inevitable moment when our glasses, those delicate and essential tools of vision, vanish into thin air. One minute, they’re perched securely on our noses or resting within easy reach, and the next, they’ve slipped into an alternate dimension where only stray socks and lost pens reside...

When I retired from teaching, I declared, “I will never attend another honors or graduation ceremony”—not because I didn’t enjoy the recognition of students and their thrills, but rather because self-inflated, long-winded speakers made me wish I’d brought a dart gun to put them down. However, as a news reporter, I attend a lot of school, business, and political events. I hear you.

Are you a S.N.I.O.P.? A S.N.I.O.P. is a person who is susceptible to the negative influences of other people. This is a common syndrome. We all desire approval from others. Everyone has grown up being conditioned to be concerned about what others think...