Month: March 2026

Lessons from the Hurt Business

Lessons from the Hurt Business SOLO | Ed Latimore | Lessons From Hurt Business

  Heavyweight boxer turned writer Ed Latimore joins Peter McGraw to talk about his new book, Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business—a raw meditation on violence, discipline, ego, addiction, and growth. Onwards! — Listen to Episode #262 here   Lessons from the Hurt Business I met my guest on Twitter, now X, though we’ve never […]

The Psychology of Solitude

The Psychology of Solitude SOLO | Thuy-Vy Nguyen and Robert Coplan | Solitude

  Alone isn’t lonely. Psychologist Robert Coplan, author of The Joy of Solitude, coined aloneliness—the distress of not getting enough time to yourself. Psychologist Thuy-vy Nguyen, co-author of Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone, discovered the “deactivation effect”—just fifteen minutes alone turns down the volume on your emotions. Peter McGraw talks to them […]

Family‑friendly workplaces are great − but ‘families of 1’ get ignored

This article was originally published at The Conversation. In 1960, 72% of adults were married, and over 90% would go on to marry. HR policies and management practices back then catered to nuclear families with a lone, male breadwinner. Today, dual-career couples and working mothers are common, largely due to the growth of women in the workforce in the second half of the […]