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Reckoning

Ben Baran

Life is beautiful. It's also really hard. Science and ancient wisdom can help.

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Resilience Is a Team Sport: What I Learned Watching Ordinary People Become Heroes on 9/11

This morning, I delivered a short speech at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, as a part of their 9/11 remembrance event. I was honored to join two other speakers, Colin Kinney, who was in New York City that day, and CeCe Payne, a Bro...

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The Great Why and the “Gospel” of Suffering

It was the late afternoon of my 17th wedding anniversary in April 2022, and I was making my legal case against God.

I had been building the case for one year, five months, and two days—compiling every argument about the grave unfairness,...

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The Right to be Unhappy

“I chose to come here because it’s important to do things that are uncomfortable,” I told the four other adults and six boys sitting nearby.

“It’s by doing hard stuff that we get the confidence that we can do other hard stuff in our lives...

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Give More Grace

No one likes traffic.

It’s even worse when driving rules are mostly suggestions—and when a small number of those other drivers might be out to harm you on purpose.

That was part of everyday life in 2013 while driving around Kabul, Afghan...

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The Importance of Naming Our Experience

There’s a Japanese word—kuchisabishī (口寂しい, pronounced koo-chee-sah-bee-shee)—that describes the desire to eat when you aren’t hungry, to snack because your mouth feels bored. The literal translation is “lonely mouth.”

Many other languages...

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