Enrich Your Life and Strengthen Your Mind by Learning a Foreign Language

by Douglas Bell • Art & Culture

Mar 19, 2021

Learning another language can have many benefits: cognitive, emotional, and social—and it doesn’t have to be the chore it used to be. Learning foreign words with no direct translation in...

David Goggins’s Key to Perseverance

by Aaron Briley • Lifestyle

Mar 12, 2021

I now understand why former Navy Seal and ultra marathoner, David Goggins, earned the nicknames the “toughest man alive,” the “sultan of suffering,” a “connoisseur of pain,” and a “disciple...

Build the Best Version of You with Cassey Ho

by Angelica Werth • Lifestyle

Mar 4, 2021

Imagine turning two things you love doing into a brand worth millions of dollars. That’s exactly what thirty-four-year-old Cassey Ho has done with designing clothes and teaching Pilates, and that’s...

Jeff Bezos’s Framework for Making Smart Decisions

by Maggie Bird • Lifestyle

Feb 25, 2021

For more than twenty five years, Jeff Bezos has revolutionized the way we use technology to improve our lives. Recently, I came across a video of Bezos from 1998 in...

How We Strengthened Our Relationship in Times of Lockdown

by Thomas F. Walker • Lifestyle

Feb 20, 2021

We had just started our long-distance relationship when governments closed borders in response to COVID-19—with one of us in the United States and the other in the UK. The pandemic...

God vs. Ayn Rand: A Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager and Craig Biddle

by OSI Admin • Lifestyle

Feb 18, 2021

Craig Biddle recently joined Dennis Prager for a wide-ranging discussion about religion, Objectivism, and American values. This is the conversation our culture needs to have—and a model of the civility...

Introducing OSI’s Republic of Letters

by Team OSI • Announcements

Feb 12, 2021

I’m excited to announce Objective Standard Institute’s brand new “Republic of Letters.” This is a meetup group for active writers who have taken (or are taking) one of OSI’s writing...

Cal Newport to Speak at TOS-Con 2021

by OSI Admin • Announcements

Jan 28, 2021

Exciting news! Cal Newport—author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and the forthcoming A World Without Email—has joined the roster for TOS-Con 2021, this July in Boston. In his talk, “Your...

Maximizing Your Creativity with Productive Meditation

by Maggie Bird • Lifestyle

Jan 26, 2021

Deep Work: “Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard...

Cracking the Code on Team Performance

by Aaron Briley • Business & Finance

Jan 18, 2021

Daniel Coyle, in The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, presents a compelling case for why some teams are more successful than others. His one-word answer is “culture,”...

Art as Inspiration: Lang Lang at the Prado

by Angelica Werth • Art & Culture

Jan 14, 2021

Great musicians can inspire students of music to improve their own playing and artistry. I experienced this myself in 2017 when, as a novice piano student, I went to see...

Cara E. Yar Khan on the Value of Courage

by Angelica Werth • Lifestyle

Jan 8, 2021

“Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being...