Concepts
things like limerence, cognitive distortion
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
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Buckminster Fuller and the Sixty-Six-Year Experiment to Document His Existence
Plus, a new prompt.
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Peter Hujar, Linda Rosenkrantz, and the Art of Noticing What You Actually Do With a Day
A small experiment in noticing
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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.
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How to Become Who You Actually Want to Be
Our brains have hidden systems. We're not using them.
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What Happens When 107 People Help You Interpret Your Pain
In Take Care of Yourself, an artist turns a breakup letter into a collective act of interpretation.
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The Strange Fate of Alfred Binet’s Intelligence Test
On the Difficulty of Controlling What We Create
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Rachel Carson on the Intelligence of Wonder
From the 1965 Reader's Digest book: How to Live with Life.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Ntozake Shange Refused to Pathologize Herself. Here's What She Did Instead.
On mental illness, artistic form, and who gets to decide what's real
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Change Your Life Using Design Thinking From IDEO.
What happens when you stop trying to fix yourself—and start prototyping your life instead?
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Octavia Butler's Method for Reaching Impossible Goals
The sci-fi legend's practice of writing from the future
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The Most Important Parenting Question You've Never Been Asked
The well-meaning behavior that harms children
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Why Trying to Feel Safe Never Works: Winnicott on the Fear of Breakdown
D.W. Winnicott's unsettling theory about the catastrophe you're still waiting for
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The Secret Life of Coping: The Private Strategies of an Anxious Person
From the Mixed-Up Files of Ms. Amanda J. Sternweiler
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