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At the start of every new year, many of us think about how to make our lives better going forward. Perhaps we want to lose weight or stop drinking or stay off of our cell phones. If only we had more ...

I was thinking of starting this post by asking you to cue the 1980s Laura Branigan hit “Self Control”—except this version of self-control won’t have you losing your mind in the middle of the night.

Self-respect is often described as a somewhat abstract, intuitive, internal feeling or judgement that one has about oneself. But if we observe it up-close and long-term, we can see that it’s actually ...