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9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings
Reflections on the rewards of seeking out what magnifies your spirit.
Creative Courage for Young Hearts: 15 Emboldening Picture Books Celebrating the Lives of Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists
Jane Goodall, Julia Child, Pablo Neruda, Marie Curie, E.E. Cummings, Albert Einstein, Ella Fitzgerald, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Frida Kahlo, and more.
Hurry Up and Wait: Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman’s Whimsical Children’s Book for Grownups about Presence in the Age of Productivity
“It feels so good to go someplace. Except when you want to stay right there where you are.”
Kierkegaard on Boredom, Why Cat Listicles Fail to Answer the Soul’s Cry, and the Only True Cure for Existential Emptiness
“The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.”
The Best of Brain Pickings 2014
The psychology of the perfect daily routine, how to criticize with kindness, the creative purpose of boredom, Kafka on what books do for the soul, and more.
William James on the Psychology of the Second Wind and What Enables Us to Transcend Our Limits
“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake… We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.”
Change the Narrative, Change Your Destiny: How James Baldwin Read His Way from Harlem to the Literary Pantheon
“You’re playing the game according to somebody else’s rules, and you can’t win until you understand the rules and step out of that particular game, which is not, after all, worth playing.”
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Fulfillment Beyond the Limiting Notion of Work/Life Balance
“We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.”
Self-Refinement Through the Wisdom of the Ages: New Year’s Resolutions from Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
Enduring ideas for personal refinement from Seneca, Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Carl Sagan, Alan Watts, Emerson, Bruce Lee, Maya Angelou, and more.
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