Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the psychology of leadership, tech and entrepreneurship. While the human quest of meaning is perennial, the answers ...

What Makes Us Human? is a biweekly column from Emi Sakamoto ’28. Sakamoto investigates the question to better understand human-centered meaning in the midst of a rapidly evolving artificial landscape.

The notion of living to the fullest by grabbing on to life and holding it tight can be traced to ancient Greece. Our ...

The world-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, author of the classic bestseller, Man’s Search for Meaning, famously espoused that the search for meaning is the primary, intrinsic motivation of human ...

Few psychological theories have captured the public imagination as strongly as Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Introduced in 1943, the theory proposed that human beings are motivated by a set of ...