Cryptocurrencies can rise by thousands of percentage points in a few months and then drop 70% or more in the same amount of time. That makes the crypto sector a brutal teacher of quite a few basic ...

I’m starting to think that I’m someone who must learn things the hard way. Maybe I’m just a slow learner or maybe I must touch the hot stove to learn the lesson myself. I think back to my college ...

Growing up a latchkey kid meant learning to handle quite a lot of things on your own. Gen X was born between 1965 and 1980, which means this year they'll be turning 45 to 60 years old. As a smaller ...

Unlike coddled younger generations just beginning to make their way as adults in the modern world, Gen X and older millennials had it at least somewhat rough. Not only were they, in many ways, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. We often romanticize marriage as a magical union—something ...