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Why the anxiety you feel on Sunday night may be telling you something your calendar can't It’s Sunday night. The weekend is almost over. Maybe nothing bad has happened. You had time with your family. You watched something you enjoyed. You went out. You restedor at least tried to. And yet, somewhere around 5:00, 6:00, or 8:00 p.m., something changes. You look at the clock. You think about tomorrow. You check your email. You remember the meeting. The unfinished project. The difficult boss. The coworker you don't want to deal with. The commute. The pressure. And suddenly, your weekend doesn't feel like a weekend anymore. The Sunday Scaries have arrived. But here's the uncomfortable truth: Your Sunday anxiety may not actually be about Monday. Monday may simply be the messenger. A growing body of research suggests that the Sunday Blues are a complicated transition between nonwork and work—not simply a dislike of Mondays. A 2026 study published in Frontiers in Psychology fou...

Twenty-five years later, we remember what happened. But remembering is not the same as learning. That may be the most uncomfortable truth about September 11, 2001. We remember the images. We remember the smoke. We remember the names. We remember where we were. But memory can become passive. Learning requires something harder: changing how we think, how we prepare, how we lead, how we communicate, and how we treat people long after the headlines disappear. On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes and killed 2,977 people from 90 nations. The tragedy changed American security, emergency management, aviation, public health, leadership, technology, and our understanding of terrorism. But some of the most important lessons are not about terrorism at all. They are about human behavior under pressure. And those lessons still apply to CEOs, teachers, parents, first responders, organizations, communities and anyone responsible for other people. Here are ni...