Now, the couple and their five-year-old daughter live with their mother in a two-bedroom house, trying to climb out of the ...

Who among us doesn’t want to be rich — or richer? Even multibillionaires are constantly strategizing how to make more, more, more. If you’re coming from a place of scarcity or have yet to build any ...

Many Americans dream of being rich, but few know how to get there. That’s where the “wealth ladder” comes in — it’s a step-by-step framework for building financial freedom, one rung at a time. At the ...

That raises the question: What does it actually take to be rich? We asked a few six-figure earners to share their thoughts. For many high earners, being rich isn’t about hitting some magic number, ...

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A six-figure salary used to be the benchmark of wealth and success. But now, it’s not uncommon for high earners to feel financially stretched. That raises the question: What does it actually take to ...

Lucy Gilliam, PhD, and Captain Arjen van der Veen are water people—it’s their life’s work. She is an environmental scientist; he founded a green freight shipping company. But water is also their home.

New research suggests that psychological richness—a life of perspective-changing experiences—may matter just as much as happiness or meaning. For centuries, scholars and scientists have defined the ...

Do you think a good life is a happy life? A meaningful life? It can be. But there is another dimension of the good life that, until now, has been vastly underappreciated. In an important article just ...

As a teenager, I spent a summer abroad living with a French family as part of a foreign exchange program. None of my French family spoke English, and it wasn’t always easy to communicate or understand ...