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January 2012
- All I can say about New York
- Wikipedia disappears for a day, nation's students collapse into despair, entitlement issues
- You are a public figure
- Nature's finest gift to you
- There are no clean slates, and you don't need one
December 2011
- How to get rich without making more money
- An unfortunate development
- How to stay out of Hell
- What happened in my last 1000 days
November 2011
- November is the new December
- Why should you be forced to help someone else?
- Two methods for dealing with negative people
- Why do you do what you don't love?
October 2011
- Ordinary things every mother has seen
- 7 High-leverage life skills they should teach in grade school
- Mold and The Law
- How to avoid terrible curses
- Let's use the C-word more often, and really mean it
September 2011
- You and your friends are all going to die, and that's beautiful
- A Day in the Life
- How to Walk Across a Parking Lot
- My Seven
- How to Play Ball
August 2011
- The Revolver: Well-Kept Secrets Edition
- Procrastination: The Finale
- The kind of truth you can't argue with
- Ok, here’s what’s wrong with the world (Pt. 2)
- Ok, here's what's wrong with the world
- Your eyes needed
- The site it is a-changin'
- Anger makes you forget other people are people
July 2011
- The Revolver - "Look Closer" Edition
- What is Wrong with the World?
- The Revolver
- Of Course the Universe is Conscious
June 2011
- How to See Straighter by Crossing Your Eyes
- Ten Ordinary Moments Away From Home
- When the Power Goes Out For Good
- Our Lives Are Not What We Think
May 2011
- Your Little Corner of Time
- You Are Another Bull in the China Shop
- Progress is the Only Protection
- Procrastination is Not Laziness
April 2011
- The Enormous Role of the Little Thing (and Cavemen!)
- Four Words That Make Me Suspicious of Myself When I Say Them
- The Thing That Makes This All Happen
- I'd like your input on something
March 2011
- What I Discovered When I Went Vegan for 30 Days
- Your Questions, Answered
- Why Your Fears Won't Come True
- The World is Quietly Asking You to Get Your Shit Together
February 2011
- Everything in its Place, Finally and Forever
- 7 Reasons I Never Went Vegan
- We Check Email 17 Times a Day Because We Like to Get High
- Deal With it, Princess
January 2011
- How to Make Trillions of Dollars
- I Don't Want Stuff Any More, Only Things
- A Day in the Future
- If The World Was Populated by Six Billion of Me, I'd Totally Be Gay
- Best of Raptitude in 2010, and a 2011 Preview
December 2010
- The Straight Dope on Kiva
- Does Charity Leave You Cold?
- So This is Christmas... and How Are You?
- What to Do About the World's Suffering
November 2010
- Where is Your Mind Right Now?
- You Must Go Do the Next Thing
- If the election really mattered to you, you'd do more than just vote
October 2010
- A Shocking Revelation About Human Nature
- 9 Mind-Bending Epiphanies That Turned My World Upside-Down
- Two Milestones
- Being Healthy is Not Normal
September 2010
- Do You Make a Moral Issue Out of Being Inconvenienced?
- 28 More-Than-Just-Clever Remarks From One of History's Great Smartasses
- The Art of Showing Up
- Who You Really Are (Pt. 2)
- Who You Really Are
August 2010
- To My Fellow Skeptics (and Believers Too)
- Five Useful Headless Resources
- Headlessness FAQ
- The Decapitation of Douglas Harding
- What is the Ego, Anyway?
- There is Someone I Think You Should Meet
- How to Make Life Agreeable
- The Only Reason to Behave Ethically
July 2010
- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
- The Purpose of Life, Revealed
- How to Deal With People Who Frustrate You
- Finally... The Video
- Three Typical Mistakes in Thinking About the Future
- Good News: Happiness Doesn't Exist
- Home?
June 2010
- The Best Way to Deal With Loss
- Time's Up
- What the Data Will Never Reveal
- It's Not What It Looks Like
- The Hidden Cost of Commitment
May 2010
- If Society is Sick, What Should We Do About It?
- Why Sharing Our Opinions Matters, Even When They're Recycled
- Never Forget Your Rights
- First Things First
- The 10 Most Beautiful Places I Visited in New Zealand
- Saying Goodbye
- How I Spent My Life Last Week -- Experiment No. 6 Results
April 2010
- Aliens Exist, and We Should Avoid Them if We Want to Live
- Insight Is Not Enough
- Yes, But Does it Work?
- Where Does The Time Go? -- Experiment No. 6
- The Interview: Raptitude's Readers Ask About All Things Awesome
- Die on Purpose
- Complaining is Only a Symptom -- Experiment No. 5 Results
March 2010
- This is Your Life's Work
- 40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From a Ruthless Nonconformist
- How to Make Mindfulness a Habit With Only a Tiny Commitment
- A Brief History of Raptitude
- If a Blog Falls in the Forest...
- A Thought From My Hero
- 40 Songs I Will Always Love, Cool or Not (Pt. 2)
- 40 Songs I Will Always Love, Cool or Not
- This is So Inappropriate!
February 2010
- A Shocking Instance of Self-Discovery
- 49 Beds in Four Months
- The Awkward Side-Effects of Evolution
- 3 Pieces of Advice I'd Give My 18 Year-Old Self If I Could
- Help Me Interview Neil, and Win THE BOOK OF AWESOME!
- The End of Negativity - Raptitude Experiment No. 5
January 2010
- Forget About World Peace
- How to Enjoy Your Forgotten Superpowers
- The Worst of Raptitude, Vol. 1
- Being Alive Puts You at Serious Risk of Death
- What Poker Pros Can Teach You About Your Deepest Issues
- What Were Your Highlights in 2009?
December 2009
- Behind the Scenes Exclusive!
- Christmas Alone
- Chop Wood, Carry Water
- Nature's Dominant Creature
- What Passion Will Buy You
- Two Simple Tricks to Be More Comfortable in Your Own Skin
November 2009
- Things We Said Today
- Goodbye Thailand, I Miss You Already
- Blame is Useless
- Same Same But Different
- Wi-Fi Woes
- What Five Days of Silence Taught Me
- The Two Spells of Nausea That Changed My Life, and Other Reasons for Hope
October 2009
- The Easiest Way to Suffer
- How to Be Right All the Time
- Hello From the West Coast
- How to Improve Your Handwriting (or Anything Else) at Will
- David Goes Kiwi is Officially Online
- How to Fight Crime by Making Your Bed
- A New Relationship With Food - Experiment No. 4 Results
- How to Not Cry Over Spilled Milk
September 2009
- Nineteen Days Left of Life as I Know It
- Reruns?
- You
- What's Your Problem? And Why?
- Hands: The Best and Worst of Humanity
- The List
- How to Make a Life List You'll Actually Do: A Comprehensive Guide
- Defensive Eating - Raptitude Experiment No. 4
August 2009
- What I Learned From My Stint in The Traveling Reptile Show
- Should We Have Compassion for Killers?
- People and Fire
- Seek Professional Help
- The Unbearable Truth
- What Your Dinged Up Car Can Teach You About the Universe
- The Seven Blunders of the World
- Why You Should Keep Your Really Old Schoolwork
- Beer and Coffee: My Problem Children, Put to Bed at Last
- I Won't Kill Jake
July 2009
- How I Found the Secret to Happiness While Totally Naked
- Ethanol Free -- 30 Days Without Drugs Update
- The Essential Skill of "Want Management"
- The Results Are in! -- Experiment No. 2: David Before and After Kettlebells
- Secret Lessons From Sesame Street
- Moments Can't Be Captured
- 100 Years Hence
- The Highest of Arts
- 30 Days Without Drugs -- Raptitude Experiment No. 3
- 88 Important Truths I've Learned About Life
- Trouble Accessing Raptitude?
June 2009
- Monday Update
- A Short Wildlife Film
- How to Make Exceptional Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 4 Brilliant Remarks From History's Wisest American
- A Note From David
- How to Get Comfortable Not Knowing
- And My Destination Is...
- This Will Never Happen Again
- There's Nothing Small About the World
May 2009
- Good Morning
- The Year With Two Summers
- Do Something
- Does Your Story Have This Common Weakness?
- 3 Extraordinary Bloggers Doing 3 Extraordinary Things Right Now
- How to Be Grateful When You Don't Feel Like It
- Strength, Soviet Style -- Raptitude Experiment No. 2
- A Definition of Freedom
- You Are the Greatest Story Ever Told
- Powerful Lessons My Mom Did Not Teach Me
- The Results Are In -- Experiment No. 1, Day 30
- Same Purpose, Different Styles
- Asking Google is Asking Humanity
April 2009
- Get Up, Stand Up
- How to Always Have Something Better to Talk About Than the Weather
- 7 Profound Insights From the Beatles
- David vs. Monkey Mind -- Meditation Experiment: Day 15
- There is No Good and Evil, Just Smart and Dumb (Part 2 of 2)
- There is No Good and Evil, Just Smart and Dumb (Part 1 of 2)
- Thank You
- 9 Thoughts Worthy of Immortality
- How to Alleviate Self-Consciousness and Other People-Allergies
- Raptitude Experiment No. 1 -- Sharpening the Mind
- The Secret to Connecting With People
- The Most Important Thing I Ever Learned
March 2009
- How to Keep Bad Moods From Taking You Over
- Six Amazing Songs That Illustrate What it Means to Be Human
- The Only Resource More Precious than Time
- The One Ingredient Necessary for Accepting Yourself
- Protect Your Dreams From Contamination
- How to Improve Your Quality of Life by up to 90 Percent
- How to Keep Life Fresh, For Free
- Why Happiness is Such a Struggle
I'm David and Raptitude is a street-level look at the human experience -- what makes human beings do what they do, and what that means in real life.
I write about how to make sense of the earth's most ridiculous animal, how to get better at being one of them, and how only those two things can save the world. 
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