A coworker’s success can stir more than resentment. It can reveal insecurity, ambition, grief, and the hidden standards shaping how you judge your own progress.

I was born jealous; I needed no apprenticeship. Somewhere in my infant brain was inscribed a primitive cry for--and at-- injustice: "Ignore them; choose me!" It's still there, that cry, indelible as a ...

Yet Washington used jealousy favorably with reference to “a free people.” Since Matson follows the lead of Smith, I wondered ...