In this busy world we live in, the majority of us are overwhelmed and stressed out. This week we are taking a look at the ...

Greg McKeown doesn't believe in having it all or doing it all. In his new book Essentialism, he argues that we should pursue only those things that are truly important — and eliminate everything ...

We spoke to experts in the fields of minimalism, essentialism and organization to break down in digestible terms what ...

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less, by leadership and business consultant Greg McKeown, champions the lifestyle of essentialism, which he defines as "the relentless pursuit of less but ...

This is called essentialism. It is the belief that each of the groups we identify with our labels actually has an “essential” and immutable nature, rooted in biology or in the nature of reality.

The answer eventually led me to essentialism – a guiding set of “less is more” type principles that have had a profoundly positive impact on the way I choose to live. The roots of ...

Recent debates around transgender people and sexual diversity have been marked by essentialism, a profoundly conservative mindset with deep links to religious and metaphysical dogmatism.

That mantra comes at a cost because it increases the chance that we will be tricked by the trivial. Below is an excerpt from my recent book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, which ...

Genetic essentialism is the idea that genes largely determine who we are, including our social traits and behaviors. The study, led by political scientist Alexandre Morin-Chassé, found that ...

This fact leads some to reduce its complexity and contingency to simplistic cliches. This is essentialism. By focusing on one aspect of a society at war, we hope to save ourselves the trouble of ...

At the 28th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, more than 1,500 undergraduate students from UW and partnering ...