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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Disliked
Jun 04, 2025

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.
May 28, 2025

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

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

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Notes & Thoughts: The New York Times 1st Well Festival
May 14, 2025

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

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Feeling of the Form: On the Nature of Taste
May 07, 2025

The Feeling of the Form: On the Nature of Taste

Why this and not that?

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
How to Learn Anything, Really
Apr 16, 2025

How to Learn Anything, Really

Richard Feynman’s Timeless Strategy

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Necessary Unknown: The Voynich Manuscript, Winnicott's Third Space, and Why We Need What We Cannot Understand
Mar 19, 2025

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

The cognitive pull of the unsolvable

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Beautiful Trap: How Limerence Warps Perception and Fuels Obsession
Mar 05, 2025

The Beautiful Trap: How Limerence Warps Perception and Fuels Obsession

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

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Creative Inputs: Artists, Ideas, and One Song on Repeat
Feb 26, 2025

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

These things are bringing me joy

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Basement Prisoners: How Dorothea Dix Exposed America's Hidden Mental Health Horrors
Feb 05, 2025

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

A 19th Century Teacher's Campaign Revolutionized Patient Care

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Survival Paradox: How Sexual Violence Hijacks Our Most Ancient Protection System and Why Victims Comfort Their Abusers.
Jan 22, 2025

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

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Feeling Before Thinking: What Susan Sontag Taught Us About Experience as the True Language of Understanding
Jan 01, 2025

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

Why Direct Experience Transcends Academic Knowledge

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Year End Gifts For You
Dec 25, 2024

Year End Gifts For You

A non-denominational virtual stocking

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Every Wednesday, author Amanda Stern explores the hidden forces of the mind, unearthing what really drives us.

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Every Wednesday, author Amanda Stern explores the hidden forces of the mind, unearthing what really drives us.

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