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The idea that you need to keep busy permeates much of today’s culture. Tasking, and especially multitasking, seems to be the sign of being smart. By contrast, sitting idly by while others are engaged in seemingly useful work can make you look like there’s something wrong with you. But is it possible that something is wrong with those other people?

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What did you want to be when you grew up?

This is a pretty innocent question that all children are asked, and ask themselves. Mine was a baker, florist, musical instrument maker, and a U.N. worker at different times.

So when my friend said, “I want to be a CEO of a big company,” I was surprised. While it was probably just youthful blabber, I remember that comment vividly to this day.

The surprise was manyfold. I had no idea how one would become a CEO, or what that path would look like. But mainly, the surprise was because I myself would never want to be a CEO, even if (like a bad sitcom plot) somebody handed me that job.

Why this aversion?

It is not hard work I fear. What first comes to mind is a complicated organizational chart.

Nekro drank with his left hand because two fingers on his right had never closed properly after whatever had happened to them. Nobody at the bar knew the story. Somebody had asked once, years ago, and received a look that made a second question feel intrusive.

Politics came on the television above the bottles. The sound was off, which improved everyone involved.

A younger man two stools down watched the captions for a while before asking, “You ever trust any of these people?”

Nekro smiled into his whiskey and rubbed his crooked fingers against the bar.

“I trust history. History had better manners about these things.”

“What things?”

“Who was in charge.”

He lifted his bad hand and counted anyway, forcing each finger down with his thumb.

“Empires were run by emperors. Kingdoms were run by kings. Governments were run by governors. Nobody had to pretend the language wasnt trying to warn you.”

The younger man laughed into his beer.

“And now?”

Nekro looked up at the television. A politician was smiling beneath a flag while the captions promised something nobody in the room expected to receive.

He finished his whiskey, left the empty glass on the wet ring it had made, and reached for his coat.

“Now we have countries....

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I still can hear my mother's kindly voice reminding me, "Susan, finish one thing before you go on to another."

I do not have ADHD. Yet as I look back on the many projects I've had the honor to complete in my 80+ years of life thus far—6 books, 300+ blog posts on this website that have attracted over 27 million reads, lectures across the globe, enabled a cure for vulvodynia, created a name for the phenomenon of adult sibling alienation, not to mention the many clients I've been honored to have been able to help so that they have more satisfying life journeys and marriage relationships—still, I increasingly appreciate my mother's sage advice.

Most people picture the Great Sphinx of Giza when they hear the word “Sphinx.” But the Sphinx from the story of Oedipus was something very different.

In Egyptian tradition, sphinxes were associated with kingship, strength, protection, and divine power. The Greek Sphinx, meanwhile, was a winged female monster that terrorized Thebes and killed those who failed to answer her riddle.

The interesting part is how a similar hybrid creature could represent royal protection in Egypt but death and intellectual terror in Greek mythology.

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Ooh, sequel friend! A new Inbetweeners movie is officially in the works, Netflix has confirmed.

The original cast of Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas will reprise their roles for the feature film, with production starting on Monday.

The Inbetweeners 3 will follow on the story of their characters, Will McKenzie, Jay Cartwright, Neil Sutherland and Simon Cooper.

They originally starred in three seasons of the popular coming-of-age sitcom, which aired on E4 between 2008 and 2010.

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Andrew Scott says he loved the challenge of his latest acting role in the film Pressure, as the meteorologist key to the success of World War Two's D-Day - the largest seaborne invasion in history.

“Group Captain James Stagg may not have been the most charming person, but I think he had a huge amount of humility in the face of nature. And that's one of the themes I think of the film," Scott tells the BBC.

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James Bond is special. Playing him propels an actor into an exceptionally elite group of performers. From Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, only six people have ever played him in the official film series.

In the last decade alone the UK has had more prime ministers, and twice as many people have walked on the moon than have played the British secret agent.

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Life is full of small pleasures. A quick lunch between meetings. A short video while waiting for the bus. A favorite song on the way home. A few minutes of a game before bed. Millions of people consume such simple pleasures every day, often to feel a spark of enjoyment. But we often rush through them—eating without really tasting, listening without really hearing, already thinking about the next task. So a simple question comes up: How can we get more enjoyment out of these everyday moments?

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Spoiler Alert: The discussion includes spoilers about the characters and relationships featured in the series Sterling Point.

Prime Video’s Sterling Point has many of the ingredients of an irresistible coming-of-age drama. It has an idyllic summer setting, complicated families, messy romantic choices, and enough buried secrets to ensure nobody can sit by the lake and enjoy themselves.

Created by Megan Park, the series follows 17-year-old Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin), who discovers that she and her twin brother Connor (Keen Ruffalo) have inherited a remote Canadian island from the grandfather they were never allowed to meet. What begins as Annie’s attempt to uncover her family history quickly turns into a story about adoption, identity, and siblinghood,

Five things Sterling Point gets especially right: