A brave friend recently shared that she was feeling tired—really tired. Not ‘I-didn’t-get-enough-sleep’ tired, but something much deeper. She said, “It’s as if I’ve lost my motivation.” I call her ...

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Clemson University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Because there’s no generally accepted definition of what a streak is, I started by trying to define the phenomenon. Based on ...