Books

The Unbearable Lightness of Not Being Yourself

How I Stopped Being Myself Long Enough to Get Better

Proust's First Selfie

The Victorian parlour game that became a cultural mirror.

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

Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.

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)

A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Human Experience

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

A Field Guide to Spotting Manipulation in Real Time

Crib sheet for the road

The Easiest People to Control

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

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

What's getting me through

On Becoming a Person

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

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Disliked

How Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology Explains the Modern Self

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

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

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