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- How Does the Room Sound Right Now?
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April 2023
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- You Are Always the Other Person
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- Why Do We Want Problems to Be Someone’s Fault?
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- A Complete Guide To Actually Getting Somewhere With Meditation
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February 2020
- A Better Way To Respond to Cravings
- How to Create Gratitude
- The Difference Between Getting By and Getting Better
January 2020
December 2019
- How To Go Deeper In 2020
- How To Make Meditation Ten Times Easier
- Most Accomplishments Are Invisible
- Mr. Rogers Wasn't a Saint, He Was One of Us
November 2019
- Do What You’re Doing
- Two Ways to Keep the Fountain Flowing
- Five Old School Things To Consider Doing Again
October 2019
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- The Only Dependable Source of Happiness
- Why We Can't Sit Quietly In A Room Alone
- How To See Things As They Are
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- Gratitude Comes From Noticing Your Life, Not From Thinking About It
- It's Time to Put the Internet Back into a Box in the Basement
January 2018
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September 2017
- Could I convince you to meditate with a single sentence?
- The Myth of the “Aha” Moment
- The Case For Not Knowing What Time It Is
August 2017
- I Have Another Blog
- The Long Lost Thrill of Doing Nothing
- When You Can’t Stop Looking Ahead, Look Backwards
- The Cost of a Free Lunch
July 2017
- Wise People Have Rules For Themselves
- Three Things We All Need to Know About Desire
- The Alternative to Thinking All the Time
June 2017
- Where Personal Breakthroughs Really Come From
- Want More Time? Get Rid of The Easiest Way to Spend It
May 2017
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March 2017
- What to Do Before The Robots Take Over
- The Only Thing You Need to Get Good At
- Lessons in Being Human
February 2017
- How to Keep Emotions From Running Your Life
- Think of Your Choices as Effects, Not Causes
- Why Mindfulness Seems Annoying
January 2017
December 2016
- Maybe You Don't Have a Problem
- How to Eat Less Crap During the Holidays
- Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News
November 2016
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- How Little Boys Learn to be Little Men
- Where Abundance Comes From
- The Two Ways to Move Through Life
- 88 More Truths I've Learned About Life
July 2016
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- How Pop-ups are the Doorway to Evil and the End of the World
- Getting What We Want Isn’t What We Really Want
April 2016
March 2016
- 4 Absurdly Easy Things I Do That Make Life Disproportionately Better
- A Meeting of Minds
- Where the Wealth Was All Along
- Life is Looking Out a Window
February 2016
- How Do You Sleep at Night?
- The Art of Letting Others Be Right
- A Brief Visit to the End of the World
- Thank You
January 2016
- How to Become a Luckier Person Overnight
- The Great Myth About Getting in Shape (and Every Other Goal)
December 2015
- 7 Years and 21 Self-Improvement Experiments: Where They All Are Today
- Camp Calm
- Time is Something We Do, Not Something We Experience
- How to Become Less Shy
November 2015
- Mindfulness is the Opposite of Neediness
- Don’t Worry, Everybody Else is Crazy Too
- What if You Couldn't Lie?
- How to Worry Less
October 2015
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- Every Thing You Own is a Relationship You're In
- How to Get Good at What You’re Bad At
- A Brief Guide to Recreational Time Travel
- An Open Letter to My 15-Year-Old Self Just Before the Start of High School
July 2015
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- A Basic Skill We Should Have Learned as Kids
- Making Things Clear
- The First-World Fear That Makes Life Harder
- If Excess is Normal, I Want to Be Strange
April 2015
March 2015
- How to Get Yourself to Do Things
- How to Take a Day Off
- One Choice We're Constantly Making
- This Just In: Humans Are Bad at Everything That's Important
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December 2014
November 2014
- A Common Habit That Costs Us Friends
- Two Very Different Reasons to Believe Something
- When Peace Goes Away, it Doesn't Make a Sound
- The Greatest Gift We Ever Had
October 2014
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August 2014
- What happened during my 30 days on a liquid superfood
- Welcome to The Future! (Please enjoy responsibly.)
- Don't make a Thing out of it
July 2014
- You Are Here
- 5 Easily-Overlooked Truths About Thinking
- The elegant art of not giving a shit
- Life is WAY simpler than you think
- 5 rules of thumb for interacting with people
June 2014
- Fear is your mind at its dumbest
- Two ways of viewing the world
- Effort alone isn't enough
- In defense of the serious bucket list
- What inner peace actually is
May 2014
- How to get un-stuck in about 20 minutes
- Why the hell would anyone want to live on Soylent?
- The missing ingredient to happiness
- It's okay to be here
April 2014
- The frightening thing you learn when you quit the 9 to 5
- Why most internet activists don't change any minds
- Changing directions at the middle of the world
- Most problems never have to be solved
March 2014
- The First World's biggest addiction
- A tale of two species
- 15 unexpected side-benefits to living in the present moment
- How to stop your mind from talking all the time
- An unlikely-sounding trick for shortening everyday bad moods
February 2014
- How to work now and procrastinate later
- Keep your doing and your deciding away from each other
- My new book, out today
January 2014
- 6 should-be-common-sense realities about doing what you love for a living
- The difference between being good with money and bad with money
- How to live in the moment
December 2013
- 16 things I know are true but haven't quite learned yet
- Why I like something as dumb and meaningless as professional sports
- How to stand up straight
- Find balance over your years, not your days
- What to get everyone for Christmas
November 2013
- The Four Horsemen of Procrastination (and how to defeat them)
- Accept it whether you can change it or not
- What would you like to see?
October 2013
- Use your privilege
- The elegant secret to self-discipline
- Whatever becomes normal becomes invisible
- 6 helpful reminders for the overwhelmed person
September 2013
- A tweet in time saves nineteen thousand dollars
- This Will Never Happen Again (but it happened)
- When did goods get so bad?
- An interview with The Man
August 2013
July 2013
- Other people see your problems more clearly than you do
- How to change your mind
- The sun is setting at all times
June 2013
- 5 steps to stop worrying what people think of you
- What do you do now that you should have always done?
- Why the minimalists do what they do
May 2013
- Being and doing are not at odds
- How to cross every item off your to-do list in one night
- Let reality be real
April 2013
- How much of your life are you selling off?
- Honesty can be pretty damn rude
- Mindfulness lives in the sink
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
- You don't want to be typical
- The most powerful force in the universe, and how to use it
- I have never properly worked a day for myself
December 2012
- How to sit in a chair and drink tea
- How much does it cost to be you?
- On being under the influence at Ikea
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
- The Law of Attraction, for science-heads and Secret-haters
- The body is in charge, and won't let you forget it for long
- What others leave for you to keep
July 2012
- The person you used to be still tells you what to do
- What you want is never a thing
- Tomorrow is not a suitable day for doing things
- Most lives are lived by default
June 2012
May 2012
- How to become aroused by yourself (in 20 minutes or less)
- How to do the right thing, for sinners like you and me
- It's not who you are, it's what you do
- It's another Monday morning, do you know where you are?
April 2012
- You can't really know what you want until you know you don't know what you want
- We need every little catastrophe
- Giving up the V-card
March 2012
- How to buy happiness
- Why your work disappoints you
- We're quite different but we still sleep together
February 2012
- All self-images are false
- You can't go home again. Again.
- Defy mother nature
- 5 things that always work and don't cost anything
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 Bucket 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 blog about getting better at being human -- things we can do to improve our lives today.
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