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"I’d worked all my life and never did a student gap year," says Harper. "I thought, ‘I’m going to go see a bit of the world.’"

Here’s how to learn from negative feedback instead of taking it personally.

How the path to becoming better starts with owning your mistakes.

Amazon has more economists on staff than any university economics department, and technology firms are snapping them up the minute they graduate, says Michael Luca. Why?

The girls may not have realized it, but they were pushing back against a powerful tendency for girls and women to view each other as threats, rather than allies or part of a support system.

Should business leaders have a say in women’s ambitions?

If I could list all of the lessons those years taught me I’d be writing a book, not an Inc.com post. So here are the seven most important ones. As you read them think of your own life experiences and ask yourself how you measure up.

Passion is not something you discover, she says — "it’s not like a lost set of keys!"

The technique has been used to help people fall asleep in the most uncomfortable circumstances, and best of all, it’s said to work for 96% of the people who tried it for six weeks.

The ability to understand and communicate about data is an increasingly important skill for the 21st-century citizen, for three reasons.