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Motivation
When the Search for a Sense of Purpose Turns on You

Gregg Levoy on May 2, 2024

There are benefits and drawbacks to a sense of life-purpose. It can become a form of striving and stress. How do you navigate a call to relinquish the driving force of purpose?

There are benefits and drawbacks to a sense of life-purpose. It can become a form of striving and stress. How do you navigate a call to relinquish the driving force of purpose?

Creativity
How Limits Aid Growth

Gregg Levoy on April 3, 2024

Limitations can clearly impede growth and there are real limitations in the world—poverty, discrimination, and disability—but limitations can also induce growth.

Limitations can clearly impede growth and there are real limitations in the world—poverty, discrimination, and disability—but limitations can also induce growth.

Boundaries
The Key to Handling Over-Talkers: Speak Up Rather Than Avoid

Gregg Levoy on March 1, 2024

Personal Perspective: Most of us know how it feels to be on the receiving end of someone over-talking. Here are some tactics for taking care of yourself in these situations.

Personal Perspective: Most of us know how it feels to be on the receiving end of someone over-talking. Here are some tactics for taking care of yourself in these situations.

Loneliness
The Cure for Loneliness Is Solitude

Gregg Levoy on January 31, 2024

Personal Perspective: Sitting with loneliness can change it from loneliness to aloneness to solitude, from negative to neutral to positive.

Personal Perspective: Sitting with loneliness can change it from loneliness to aloneness to solitude, from negative to neutral to positive.

Flow
Winging It: The Importance of Spontaneity

Gregg Levoy on January 1, 2024

Personal Perspective: We don’t just crave familiarity and predictability but also their opposites—spontaneity, novelty, discovery, surprise, and passion.

Personal Perspective: We don’t just crave familiarity and predictability but also their opposites—spontaneity, novelty, discovery, surprise, and passion.

Attention
Listening to Your Symptoms Is Listening to Your Soul

Gregg Levoy on December 2, 2023

A Personal Perspective: Symptoms—physical or behavioral—are one of the languages the soul uses to get through to you, to convey something about itself. Listen to the messages.

A Personal Perspective: Symptoms—physical or behavioral—are one of the languages the soul uses to get through to you, to convey something about itself. Listen to the messages.

Spirituality
The Value of Looking at Long-Distance Views

Gregg Levoy on October 30, 2023

Personal Perspective: Here are the health-giving benefits of taking in long views, panoramic vistas, and wide open spaces.

Personal Perspective: Here are the health-giving benefits of taking in long views, panoramic vistas, and wide open spaces.

Aging
In Retirement, Don’t Rush to Redesign Your Life—Listen to It

Gregg Levoy on October 1, 2023

Retirement can pack quite a punch in terms of your sense of identity, purpose and meaning. But don't rush to redesign your life. Take time to listen to it.

Retirement can pack quite a punch in terms of your sense of identity, purpose and meaning. But don't rush to redesign your life. Take time to listen to it.

Fear
Why It's So Hard to Ask for Help

Gregg Levoy on August 1, 2023

The key to a successful request for help is telling others exactly what you need. If you don’t specify, they're likely to try to diagnose what sort of help you seem to need.

The key to a successful request for help is telling others exactly what you need. If you don’t specify, they're likely to try to diagnose what sort of help you seem to need.

Relationships
Beyond Words: The Power of Eye-Gazing

Gregg Levoy on June 30, 2023

The mutual gaze is a powerful way to connect with others, and get to know yourself, and it takes courage. Here are the ups and downs of it.

The mutual gaze is a powerful way to connect with others, and get to know yourself, and it takes courage. Here are the ups and downs of it.

Stress
Intermittent News Fasting Is Good for Your Health

Gregg Levoy on June 1, 2023

The greater your news consumption, the greater your exposure to mental and physical stress. Here’s how to reduce your intake.

The greater your news consumption, the greater your exposure to mental and physical stress. Here’s how to reduce your intake.

Forgiveness
The Truth About “I Statements”

Gregg Levoy on May 2, 2023

The popular formula of making I-statements rather than you-statements can lessen defensive reactions, but they can still backfire. Here's how to minimize that possibility.

The popular formula of making I-statements rather than you-statements can lessen defensive reactions, but they can still backfire. Here's how to minimize that possibility.

Authenticity
The Power of Stepping Into the Unknown

Gregg Levoy on April 4, 2023

A Personal Perspective: In hanging on to the familiar, we have what’s familiar. In letting go, we surrender ourselves to whatever comes next.

A Personal Perspective: In hanging on to the familiar, we have what’s familiar. In letting go, we surrender ourselves to whatever comes next.

Attention
Our Real Attention Deficit: The Hunger for Attention

Gregg Levoy on February 1, 2023

The downside of attention-seeking behavior is the belief that it’s not how we feel about ourselves that matters but how other people feel about us.

The downside of attention-seeking behavior is the belief that it’s not how we feel about ourselves that matters but how other people feel about us.

Career
Flying in V-Formation: The Power of Personal Growth Groups

Gregg Levoy on January 4, 2023

Personal Perspective: Personal growth groups embody the role community can play in the unfolding of one's growth, healing, passion, and power.

Personal Perspective: Personal growth groups embody the role community can play in the unfolding of one's growth, healing, passion, and power.

Creativity
Dancing in the Streets: The Value of Collective Joy

Gregg Levoy on October 7, 2022

Collective effervescence is the contagious euphoria, energy and sense of belonging people feel when they join in a shared purpose or vision

Collective effervescence is the contagious euphoria, energy and sense of belonging people feel when they join in a shared purpose or vision