Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rodger Dean Duncan covers leadership issues important to the workplace It’s a question all of us should ask ourselves. Why do we ...

Whether or not you’re aware of it, the need for your life to have meaning is at the roots of the motivation that makes you uniquely human. Positive psychologists, beginning with the likes of Abraham ...

Grok: Meaning is not found; it is made. Existentialists say the universe is silent, so we must shout our own values into the ...

Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher, believed that we are personally responsible for examining and understanding our own lives, a basic tenet behind his philosophical argument to “know thyself.” He ...

Picture yourself laying in a grassy field on a warm summer day. The grass, still damp from the morning dew, sparkles a vibrant green as it reflects the sun’s shining rays. As you lay there glancing at ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How can teachers use questions most effectively in the classroom? Part One ‘s commentators were Jeri Asaro, Dan Rothstein, Diana Laufenberg, Rebecca Mieliwocki, ...

Everyone gets excited when they start down the path that leads to their lifetime dream. Defining your personal creed helps keep you from straying off that trail. That’s why the first step must always ...

The classical Christian understanding of what it means to be human provides a clear affirmation of the sacredness and uniqueness of human life, but to answer new questions posed by modern culture and ...

In honor of the start of school, I want to renew my invitation to answer high school students’ questions about God and the meaning of life. Last year I received a bunch of questions from Mercy High ...

As humans, we are able to understand the context and meaning of questions often without being explicitly told. For computers, however, this is much more difficult. In recent years, Google has been ...