Story of Vincent van Gogh

It is the idea that if you reach professional heights and are deeply invested in being high up, you can suffer greatly when you inevitably decline.

In many professions, we may reject the inevitability of decline before a very old age. But the data are clear that for most p...

• Born in 1685 in Germany, Bach was in a dynasty of musicians, though his mother and father died before he turned ten.
• Even as an orphan, he got into what he loved, starting with organ music as a court musician, composing for church services.
• This added a flavour of the de...

"When you are distressed by an external thing, it's not the thing that troubles you, but only your judgment of it" - Aurelius

• Franklin Roosevelt, widely regarded as one of America's greatest leaders, at middle age was diagnosed with polio after spending years preparing for pre...