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On Knowing Yourself: Four Questions No Honest Life Can Avoid

On Knowing Yourself: Four Questions No Honest Life Can Avoid

Why the distance between who you are and who you could be has always come down to four things you already know

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

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Rachel Carson on the Intelligence of Wonder

Rachel Carson on the Intelligence of Wonder

From the 1965 Reader's Digest book: How to Live with Life.

Concepts

+5

March TL;DR

March TL;DR

Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!

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What Closeness Is Made Of: The 36 Questions That Lead to Love

What Closeness Is Made Of: The 36 Questions That Lead to Love

Arthur & Elaine Aron set out to manufacture intimacy in a laboratory. Then their method went viral.

Concepts

+4

On What We Get Wrong About Madness, and What That Wrongness Costs

On What We Get Wrong About Madness, and What That Wrongness Costs

Michael Laudor, Carrie Costello, and the Promise America Keeps Breaking

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+5

The Ceremony Is the Cure: What the Rest of the World Knows That We Don't

The Ceremony Is the Cure: What the Rest of the World Knows That We Don't

On the cultural wisdom of honoring what we have no words for

Concepts

+4

There’s a Name for the Texture of Being You

There’s a Name for the Texture of Being You

There is a layer of your experience so personal it defeats language entirely. Analytic Philosophy knows its name.

Concepts

+3

Peter Levine and the Trembling Cure: On the Body's Buried Intelligence

Peter Levine and the Trembling Cure: On the Body's Buried Intelligence

What a lifetime of research into trauma and instinct reveals about the one place suffering actually lives

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+8

February TL;DR

February TL;DR

Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!

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