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Between them, Dave Isay of StoryCorps and Brandon Stanton of the photography website, Humans of New York, have collected more than 75,000 stories from regular folks around the world. They share their thoughts on how to get the best out of people.

In her second TED Talk, “Success, failure and the drive to keep creating,” Elizabeth Gilbert came clean about the often unglamorous life of a writer. The one thing that never wavered: her love of the written word. Here, she shares seven books that have sustained her through it all.

It's one of the most common issues raised in couples therapy. Here are three questions you can ask yourself to point you in the right direction.

This week’s comments includes replies to Simon Anholt’s introduction of the Good Country Index, a thought on the purity of art (and how we have polluted it with money), and an argument for trusting our own intellectual selves.

Narratives that hurt make us repeat self-defeating mistakes. Narratives that heal repair mistakes and promote health and well-being.

Aging happens to all of us, but scientists still don’t know the mechanism behind it. We need to focus on finding an answer, says molecular biologist Oliver Medvedik.

These precise re-creations of the world have the amazing ability to bring us up close to people and animals that are far away in space and time, says artist Aaron Delehanty.

Therapy can help couples examine their unconscious putdowns and coordinate their personal narratives in a way that elevates both partners.

You can “miss” your partner, even though, technically, they’re right next to you—for mere proximity hardly implies an intimate romantic connection.

Essential, data-derived advice for leading a happy, healthy life, shared by psychiatrist Robert Waldinger.