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Amanda Stern

Amanda Stern

Amanda Stern is the author of 13 books: Little Panic: Dispatches From an Anxious Life; The Long Haul, and 11 books for kids written under the pseudonyms Fiona Rosenbloom and AJ Stern. One of those books, "You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!" is now a Netflix movie starring Adam Sandler. She's working on her next novel and lives in Brooklyn with her dog, Busy.

How to Become Who You Mean to Be: 45 Notes From a Five-Day Retreat

How to Become Who You Mean to Be: 45 Notes From a Five-Day Retreat

Lessons on meaning, indecision, and the difference between nice and kind

Concepts

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Sharing a Piece of My Past, Before it Disappears

Sharing a Piece of My Past, Before it Disappears

Bookable, the podcast

August TL;DR

August TL;DR

Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!

tl;dr

The Brilliant Simplicity of Michael McGregor's Hotel Stationery Art.

The Brilliant Simplicity of Michael McGregor's Hotel Stationery Art.

A young artist turns an often overlooked item into a canvas

Friday Drop!

The Dark Side of Bright Siding

The Dark Side of Bright Siding

Toxic Positivity is Negative

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

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Red Riding Hood, Stripes, Rubbish: The Young Readers Press First Dictionary

Red Riding Hood, Stripes, Rubbish: The Young Readers Press First Dictionary

Images that slow down time.

Friday Drop!

Freud Said It Was Your Father. His Best Student Said It Was Your Birth.

Freud Said It Was Your Father. His Best Student Said It Was Your Birth.

Otto Rank on Life and Death Fear

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

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The Psychologist Who Discovered That Thoughts Shape Suffering

The Psychologist Who Discovered That Thoughts Shape Suffering

Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

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Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Naming

Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Naming

A short glossary of unnamed experience

Panic and Anxiety

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Why is it So Hard to Get Healthy?

Why is it So Hard to Get Healthy?

Why remaining stuck costs more than getting better.

The Invisible Autobiography

The Invisible Autobiography

3 prompts for paid subscribers

Premium

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Things Worth Sharing

Things Worth Sharing

What I'm Watching, Reading and Thinking About

Small Delights

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July TL;DR

July TL;DR

Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!

Raymond Carver's Editor Taught a Cult Workshop. I Have the Notes.

Raymond Carver's Editor Taught a Cult Workshop. I Have the Notes.

The notes from Gordon Lish's private workshop.

Friday Drop!

How to Speak: Patrick Winston on Being Unafraid.

How to Speak: Patrick Winston on Being Unafraid.

He gave the same lecture for forty years, and millions of strangers who'd never take his class started watching anyway.

Tools & Practices

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How to be Human: Andrew Solomon on the Meaning of Difference

How to be Human: Andrew Solomon on the Meaning of Difference

Why we correct what we would do well to embrace

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

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Let's Take David Foster Wallace's Class

Let's Take David Foster Wallace's Class

The complete materials from his legendary 2003 fiction seminar

Friday Drop!

Freud and Adler's Friendship Ended Over an Idea. A Book Built on It Sold 13 Million Copies.

Freud and Adler's Friendship Ended Over an Idea. A Book Built on It Sold 13 Million Copies.

The psychology Alfred Adler left behind, and the question two therapists built into a bestseller seven decades later.

Psychoanalysts and Therapists

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Buckminster Fuller and the Sixty-Six-Year Experiment to Document His Existence

Buckminster Fuller and the Sixty-Six-Year Experiment to Document His Existence

Plus, a new prompt.

Concepts

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June TL;DR

June TL;DR

Pieces too long? Read this monthly summary!

The Invisible Rules About Who Counts

The Invisible Rules About Who Counts

The secret qualifications that make a family

Systems

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Peter Hujar, Linda Rosenkrantz, and the Art of Noticing What You Actually Do With a Day

Peter Hujar, Linda Rosenkrantz, and the Art of Noticing What You Actually Do With a Day

A small experiment in noticing

Concepts

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Why Everyone Believes They See the World as It Is–And No One Does

Why Everyone Believes They See the World as It Is–And No One Does

The psychology of why we experience our opinions as facts, and how it impacts us.

Concepts

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The Era of Miracle Cures

The Era of Miracle Cures

Snake oil, miracle cures, and the advertisements that sold them.

Premium

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How to Become Who You Actually Want to Be

How to Become Who You Actually Want to Be

Our brains have hidden systems. We're not using them.

Concepts

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