The Best of Forge 2019
The Most Helpful Self-Help Stories We Published in 2019
Forge’s editors pick the stories that will stay with us long after the new year
At Forge, we publish a lot of tips and guides, offering specific ways of improving your life—a toolbox of research- and expert-backed strategies that will help you be more productive, inspired, and whole. But personal growth is bigger than that. It’s a massive (and growing) industry, full of brilliant minds, but also charlatans.
This list of stories that Forge’s editors are most proud to have published reflects the richness of the world we cover.
How to Think Without Googling by Jacqueline Detwiler
Recommended by Sam Zabell, senior audience development manager
I read to make myself smarter, but I also read to be entertained. This is one of those great pieces that does both. It reminds us that we can unplug our brains (and still live) and it makes me laugh. It also very subtly but lovingly drags me for how often I turn to Google Maps to direct me somewhere I definitely know how to get to.
