# Wit & Wisdom > Weekly wisdom you can read in 7 minutes, for free. This file provides information about Wit & Wisdom to help large language models understand and reference this publication's content. ## Posts - [Why So Many Older Men Are Quietly Giving Up](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/why-so-many-older-men-are-quietly-giving-up): What can we do? - [The "Silver Split" Divorce Epidemic](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-silver-split-divorce-epidemic) - [Meaning, Structure, and Belonging](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/meaning-structure-and-belonging): The three things modern life quietly removed - [The Quiet Disappearance of Conversation](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-quiet-disappearance-of-conversation): We Need to Talk - [What Do You Want To Want?](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/what-do-you-want-to-want): Your aspirations and impulses are rarely aligned. - [The Paradox of Progress](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-paradox-of-progress): Half the World’s Young Adults Are Barely Hanging On - [The Road Not Taken](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-road-not-taken): Every meaningful decision has a cost. - [Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten ](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/everything-i-ever-needed-to-know-i-learned-in-kindergarten): The Simple Rules That Make Life Work - [The Quiet Surrender](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-quiet-surrender): Are the robots going to take over? - [What If the American Revolution Never Happened?](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/what-if-the-american-revolution-never-happened): No Revolution. No America. - [We Suffer More in Imagination Than in Reality](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/we-suffer-more-in-imagination-than-in-reality): The mind is a talented liar. We keep believing it anyway. - [The Anatomy of Slow Moving Disasters](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-anatomy-of-slow-moving-disasters): The End is (Not) Near. - [Familiarity Breeds Indifference](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/familiarity-breeds-indifference): Sometimes It Takes a Stranger Named Freddy - [Some Things We Learn The Hard Way](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/some-things-we-learn-the-hard-way): The Lessons Nobody Can Teach You - [The Fingerprint of Grief Remains](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-fingerprint-of-grief-remains): Gratitude softens the sharpest edges of grief - [The Friendless American](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-friendless-american-5449): Why is Friendship So Difficult for Men? - [Never Give Up. Never, Ever Give Up](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/never-give-up-never-ever-give-up): You are not the best judge of what your life will become. - [The Great Sexual Divergence ](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-great-sexual-divergence): Men and women didn’t drift apart by accident - [The World’s Most Interesting Man](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-world-s-most-interesting-man): What remains when everything else falls away? - [Nobody Cares. No, Seriously, Nobody Cares](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/nobody-cares-no-seriously-nobody-cares): The only person who ever really keeps score...is you. - [Five Timeless Pieces of Advice from 300 BC](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/five-timeless-pieces-of-advice-from-300-bc): What’s old is new again and again.... - [What a Remarkable Time To Be Alive](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/what-a-remarkable-time-to-be-alive): When impossible missions become “routinely possible” - [Why Your Dog Might Be Smarter Than You](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/why-your-dog-might-be-smarter-than-you): On Dogs, Restraint, Guilt and Happiness. - [The Quiet Crisis Facing Young Men Today](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-quiet-crisis-facing-young-men-today): This one thing quietly crushed ambition - [The Quiet Crisis Facing Young Men](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-quiet-crisis-facing-young-men): This one thing quietly crushed ambition - [Six Shocking Secrets of Success](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/six-shocking-secrets-of-success): They’re not at all what you think - [The Age of Impatience](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-age-of-impatience): Are We Too Busy for Wisdom? - [The Things We Leave Behind ](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-things-we-leave-behind): In 100 years, the there will be few signs you ever lived. - [The Hidden Gift of the Detour](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-hidden-gift-of-the-detour): On risk, detours, and quiet course corrections - [The Discipline of Letting Go](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-discipline-of-letting-go): The Quiet Power of Walking Away - [The American Sobriety Experiment ](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-american-sobriety-experiment): Alcohol use is declining. That’s the bad news. - [When Did Empathy Get Hijacked?](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/when-did-empathy-get-hijacked): We didn’t lose empathy. We lost the ability to disagree without being disagreeable. - [The Growing Pains of Affluence ](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-growing-pains-of-affluence): How Unprecedented Prosperity Created a Generation Unprepared for Life - [You’re Not Meant to Carry the World](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/you-re-not-meant-to-carry-the-world): Your nervous system was not built for it - [Is Civility Really Dead?](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/is-civility-really-dead): Courtesy is an outward reflection of an inner peace. - [The Misinterpretation of the American Dream](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-misinterpretation-of-the-american-dream): It’s not at all what you think it is - [The Ultimate Act of Compassion?](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/the-ultimate-act-of-compassion) - [Twenty-Five Years of Bowling Alone](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/twenty-five-years-of-bowling-alone): The steady decline of human connection - [When Everything is Free, Nothing has Value](https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/when-everything-is-free-nothing-has-value): We’ve reduced the "cost" (and value) of the the human experience.