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Susan Sontag On Experience as the True Language of Understanding

Susan Sontag On Experience as the True Language of Understanding

Why Direct Experience Transcends Academic Knowledge

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+6

The Unbearable Lightness of Not Being Yourself

The Unbearable Lightness of Not Being Yourself

How I Stopped Being Myself Long Enough to Get Better

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+8

The Invention of Self-Doubt

The Invention of Self-Doubt

Why Our Doubts Say More About the World Than About Us

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+8

Proust's First Selfie

Proust's First Selfie

The Victorian parlour game that became a cultural mirror.

Small Delights

+2

Your Brain Is a Liar. Here's How One Psychiatrist Proved It.

Your Brain Is a Liar. Here's How One Psychiatrist Proved It.

Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+9

The Self-Awareness Paradox: Why 95% of Us Are Wrong About Ourselves

The Self-Awareness Paradox: Why 95% of Us Are Wrong About Ourselves

You're not as self-aware as you think (and neither am I)

Concepts

+4

A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Human Experience

A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Human Experience

Discover the Wellcome Collection, London’s free museum of health, history, and imagination.

Small Delights

+3

A Field Guide to Spotting Manipulation in Real Time

A Field Guide to Spotting Manipulation in Real Time

Crib sheet for the road

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+7

The Easiest People to Control

The Easiest People to Control

Why Smart, Well-Meaning Citizens Still Fall for Dangerous Leaders

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+7

Things I'm loving: 2 books, 1 artist and 1 song.

Things I'm loving: 2 books, 1 artist and 1 song.

What's getting me through

Small Delights

+2

On Becoming a Person

On Becoming a Person

Carl Rogers on the painful gap between our true selves and performed selves

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+6

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Disliked

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Disliked

How Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology Explains the Modern Self

Concepts

+5

What Survives the Years: 7 Books That Shaped My Thinking.

What Survives the Years: 7 Books That Shaped My Thinking.

On Reading, Rebuilding, and the Fragility of the Self We Archive

Premium

+1

Notes & Thoughts: The New York Times 1st Well Festival

Notes & Thoughts: The New York Times 1st Well Festival

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+12

The Feeling of the Form: On the Nature of Taste

The Feeling of the Form: On the Nature of Taste

Why this and not that?

Small Delights

+5

How to Learn Anything, Really

How to Learn Anything, Really

Richard Feynman’s Timeless Strategy

Concepts

+4

The Necessary Unknown: The Voynich Manuscript, Winnicott's Third Space, and Why We Need What We Cannot Understand

The Necessary Unknown: The Voynich Manuscript, Winnicott's Third Space, and Why We Need What We Cannot Understand

The cognitive pull of the unsolvable

Concepts

+3

The Beautiful Trap: How Limerence Warps Perception and Fuels Obsession

The Beautiful Trap: How Limerence Warps Perception and Fuels Obsession

The intrusive and inescapable high that isn't love, at all.

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+7

Creative Inputs: Artists, Ideas, and One Song on Repeat

Creative Inputs: Artists, Ideas, and One Song on Repeat

These things are bringing me joy

Small Delights

+3

The Basement Prisoners: How Dorothea Dix Exposed America's Hidden Mental Health Horrors

The Basement Prisoners: How Dorothea Dix Exposed America's Hidden Mental Health Horrors

A 19th Century Teacher's Campaign Revolutionized Patient Care

Systems

+2

The Survival Paradox: How Sexual Violence Hijacks Our Most Ancient Protection System and Why Victims Comfort Their Abusers.

The Survival Paradox: How Sexual Violence Hijacks Our Most Ancient Protection System and Why Victims Comfort Their Abusers.

On Fawning, in Response to the New York Article about Neil Gaiman

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+8

Feeling Before Thinking: What Susan Sontag Taught Us About Experience as the True Language of Understanding

Feeling Before Thinking: What Susan Sontag Taught Us About Experience as the True Language of Understanding

Why Direct Experience Transcends Academic Knowledge

Concepts

+5

Year End Gifts For You

Year End Gifts For You

A non-denominational virtual stocking

Small Delights

+3

What’s Worth Sharing: Art, Cinema, and the Books That Stay With Us

What’s Worth Sharing: Art, Cinema, and the Books That Stay With Us

From my house to yours...

Small Delights

+4

In the Depths of Uncertainty: Rebecca Solnit on Keeping Hope Alive

In the Depths of Uncertainty: Rebecca Solnit on Keeping Hope Alive

What we do now matters

Concepts

+4

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