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The Good Life → What Confucius taught about honoring your parents, and 7 ways it still applies to adult children today
Human Nature → Parents are only as happy as their least happy grown child. Research suggests one adult child who is struggling can weigh on a parent for years, and the other kids’ successes don’t make up for it.
Lives & Ideas → In 1946, about a year after leaving the Nazi camps, psychiatrist Viktor Frankl dictated a short book in nine days and wanted it published without his name. By his death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold over 10 million copies.
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