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Pocket’s Best of 2022: Great Advice

The wisdom—both practical and profound—that Pocket readers turned to for guidance this year.

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Read when you’ve got time to spare.

Making the most of your time on Earth, trusting your gut, and how to get rid of what you can’t take with you (and don’t want anyway).

How to Take Things Less Personally

Always blaming yourself or assuming others think ill of you? A CBT therapist shares ways to break these self-critical habits.

An End-of-Life Doula’s Advice on How to Make the Most of Your Time on Earth

Life is short. Here’s how to cherish every day of it.

How to (Ethically) Get Rid of Your Unwanted Stuff

With so many extensive online selling and donation resources, there’s no need to get bogged down.

How to (Try to) Quit (Almost) Anything

Whether quitting candy or something stronger, the process starts with understanding why we lean on habits in the first place.

How to Stop Overthinking and Start Trusting Your Gut

Intuition is frequently dismissed as mystical or unreliable—but there’s a deep neurological basis for it.

Be Bad, Better – From Anger to Laziness, How to Put Your Worst Habits to Good Use

Forget new year resolutions and stop striving to be someone you’re not. It’s time to embrace your messy, imperfect, soft-bellied self.

How to Live With Your Regrets

Regret is often seen as undesirable, but it’s a crucial emotion in helping us develop. How do we harness its powerful lessons?

Stop Venting! It Doesn’t Work.

As one researcher put it, “Venting anger is like using gasoline to put out a fire.”

How to Get Comfortable With Uncertainty and Change

When life is uncertain, our usual responses and coping strategies might not always work. The practice of mental agility can help us be resilient.

What to Actually Do About an Unequal Partnership

An interview with Kate Mangino, author of Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home.

Pocket’s Top Articles of 2022

Explore the stories that defined the year, and the ones we’ll still be talking about in 2023. Plus, discover the best long reads, low-lift life hacks, and entertaining culture writing that Pocket readers loved this year.