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Three decades after the Fugees, @wyclef still blends genres and proves that the people who keep asking questions are the ones who stay in the room.
Meet the cover star of our Nov/Dec music issue:
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A Harvard study of nearly 12,000 diary entries found the biggest driver of engagement wasn't pay or praise. It was small, steady progress. That's the case for low-stakes team challenges.
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Take the standard deduction? Starting in 2026, you can deduct up to $1,000 in cash donations ($2,000 married filing jointly) without itemizing. Worth planning before year-end giving.
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The best advice Latin Recording Academy CEO Manuel Abud ever got: don't build your leadership around other people's priorities. Take risks on your own terms, and own the outcome.
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In nearly 10,000 reasoning trials, a wrong AI answer dropped accuracy below having no help, and people felt more confident anyway. Wharton's Gideon Nave calls it cognitive surrender.
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At Google, LinkedIn and Salesforce, energy gets managed like a budget. Research ties working 55+ hours a week to lower cognitive performance. Long hours don't buy sustained output.
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Simone Stolzoff kept hearing one question on his book tour: how do you plan a career amid uncertainty? His answer became a new book, How to Not Know. Uncertainty is a skill you can build.
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Your best month ever probably didn't make you feel safe. Harvard's Michael Norton found millionaires say they'd need two or three times more to be happy. Real security comes from a different practice.
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Burnout doesn't announce itself. By the time a weekend can't fix your exhaustion, you've likely been in it for months. Needing caffeine just to function by 10 a.m. is one early sign. Here are 47 quieter ones worth checking yourself against.
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Johnny Cloherty kept asking record labels who handled influencer marketing for musicians. Nobody did. So he built Songfluencer. Sometimes the gap you keep hitting is the business.
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Pleasant isn't the same as psychologically safe. Workers in low-safety teams were twice as likely to be job-hunting, 41% vs. 19%, per the APA. The quiet meeting you're proud of might be the problem.
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October is going out golden. We rounded up 53 quotes for the season, from L.M. Montgomery and Virginia Woolf to Halloween movie classics, plus original SUCCESS lines made for letter boards.
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A volunteer hour is now valued at $34.79, and skilled volunteers can boost a nonprofit's effectiveness by 28%. If you know marketing, finance or tech, your expertise may be the most valuable thing you can give.
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Nine of this year's 10 Nobel winners are 70 or older. Most did their defining work in their 30s and 40s, then waited decades for the prize. The research on when breakthroughs happen puts the peak later than the 40-under-40 crowd assumes.
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Mama Duke refused to be boxed in. Lydia Asrat bet on herself when her boss said no. Both reached the biggest stages by trusting their own voice over everyone else's.
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A 2025 study linked the brain's default mode network directly to creative thinking. It lights up when your mind isn't focused on outside tasks. Packed calendars shut it down, so some leaders now protect empty time.
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Neil Giraldo's business manager wanted vodka or tequila. He chose bourbon, the hardest option, then outsourced what wasn't core and obsessed over the details that were. Any founder can borrow that playbook.
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After an interruption, it takes about 23 minutes to get back to the work, per UC Irvine's Gloria Mark. Matthew Ferry says that makes full attention rare, and rare is valuable. His fix starts with a 60-second reset.
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Nearly a third of Americans trust social media for money advice. A lot of it doesn't hold up. Carrying a balance won't boost your credit, and checking your own score never hurts it. 57 myths worth unlearning:
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Tanya Dalton calls it the badge of busy: judging a day by how many tasks you finished. She grew a side business into her family's main income, and her five-minute end-of-day routine shows what she tracks instead.
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Tech journalist Joanna Stern spent a year saying yes to AI, running more than 100 experiments. Her verdict: very mixed. AI crushed her admin work, but the one task she refused to hand over says a lot about what to protect.
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