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Our Approach to Men

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I Try to be Amused by it all Updated

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Shortshort Stories from my Book Dark

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Seven Shortshort Stories from my Book Little Doggie Stories

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Watching-Acting in-and-Directing Plays

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Poignant Stories

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On Writing and Reading - 7 Short Pieces

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Excerpts From My Book Baby Steps - Doable Ways to Improve Your Life

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Shortshort Stories from My Book - Senior Stories

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The Favorite of My 2025 Tweets

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Asked and Answered: Questions I wish someone would ask me and the honest answers I would give

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Favorite Personal Growth Ideas

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My Holiday Short-Story Stories

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My Two-Minute Takeoffs on Fairy Tales and the Like

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My Tongue-in-Cheek Nominees for the President's Cabinet

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Some Lighter Short-Short Stories I've Written

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I Try to be Amused By It All But

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From a Park Bench

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If I Were Running for President_The planks of my platform

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My Most Popular One-Line Advice, Explained

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In a Word my Candor on a Dozen Words Related to Fun

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Thoughts on Getting Stuff Done

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No One Listens to Even my Best Ideas

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The Darkest of the 500 3 Minute Stories I've Written

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Why We've Become Sadder

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Pullquotes from My Book How To Do Life, Plus My Most Recent 15 Tweets

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Pullquotes from My Book Baby Steps

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Stuporheroes - Nine Parables

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Private Thoughts - A Series of Short Short Stories

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Little Doggie Stories -Short Short Stories from My Book of That Title

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The Funniest Things I've Ever Written

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Frank Worrell on the Present and Future of Education

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Dark Stories for Adults - In time for Halloween

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Here I Perform My Favorite Eight of My 500 Short-Short Stories

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Lessons Learned from 10 Career Coaching Clients

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How I'm Dealing with Aging

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My Routines - Key to a productive and comfortable life

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Relationship Stories

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Stories About Work

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How to Start a Business, for example, a cafe

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The Favorite of my short-short stories

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My Views, Liberal and Conservative

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Upbeat Stories from my book, Soloists

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The darkest stories in my new book, Soloists_stories of introverts and outsiders facing a dilemma

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My Very Best Ideas for You, For the World

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Five of My Favorite Essays - by Joseph Epstein, Philip Lopate, and Stephen West

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15 Ideas for Your Career and Your Life

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3 of My Short-Short Stories for Valentine's Day Plus 11 Other Favorites

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Why the Israel_Palestinian Conflict

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Some of My Favorite Short-Short Stories

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Musings on Education, Climate Change, Effective Altruism, Screwing Up, Ideological Diversity & More

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7 Unpopular Ideas About Work

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How to Do Life. Marty Nemko in Conversation with Autodesk's Ex-CEO Carl Bass

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Curate Everything_Key to a good life

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Choosing a Career_Advice re tech, liberal arts grads, self-employment, future-proofing

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A Rational Approach to Life

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An Inside Look at Writers and Writing

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Advice I'd Give to a Young Person

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Questions My Career Counseling Clients Ask

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11 Two-Minute Stories for Adults at Halloween (realistic situations, no ghosts, witches, etc.)

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Music and Lyrics of Love and Life

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All I Think You Need to Know About Dogs

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Everyday Miracles

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What's Important and Not Important in Your Child's Education

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Musings on intelligence, mentors, high school football, procrastination, diamonds, and love lyrics

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My musings on diet, career, beauty, AI, utilitarianism, and more

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A Master List of Possible Cures for Procrastination

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My Favorite Ideas on Communicating Effectively

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My Answers to Common Career Questions

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Riffs on My Favorite Tweets

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My Best Ideas...Inspired by listening to Lex Fridman

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My 11 Favorite Short-Short Stories from My New Book, Soloists

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Keys to Being a Good Leader, Working Remotely, and Knowing When You've Topped Out

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My Thoughts on Relationships_Familial, Platonic, Romantic

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My 16 favorite short-short stories from my book, Soloists_outsiders and introverts facing a dilemma

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The final 21 short-short stories from my book, Soloists_People who tried to make it on their own

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4 More of My Short-Short-Stories

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Yet more short-short stories written and read for you by Marty Nemko

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9 More Short-Short Stories from My Next Book: Soloists--people who try to make it on their own.

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11 More Short-Short Stories from my Forthcoming Collection: Soloists

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Two dozen short poems from my book, Poems Practical

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Soloists: 10 short-short stories about people who mainly went it alone

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Stories from My Life: Lessons for Us All

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Requiem for Merit

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Starting Out: A few thoughts on career, relationships, health, money, and peace of mind

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Oddish thoughts on war, relationships, groupthink, diet, meetings, work ethic, praise, and coffee

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Efficiency Rules: 9 Keys to a Better Life

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My 11 Commandments: What I tell myself and others

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Succeeding Solo: How I've Tried to Do It

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Musings on Aging

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Marty Nemko Riffs on His Best Tweets

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Quotes from Great Minds Stitched Together into "Conversations"

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The Upsides and Downsides of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

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Know Thyself_Questions to help you do that

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How I Try to Live Up to My Potential

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Thoughts on the Holidays_Philosophy, presents, guesting, hosting

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Marty Nemko Reads from His Book, Poems Practical

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My Most Potent Ideas on Career and On Relationships

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When is it Wise to be Radically Honest?

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The Art of Being a Self-Help Writer