Search results for “Lisbeth Zwerger”
Harvard Social Psychologist Amy Cuddy on Mastering the Antidote to Anxiety, Self-Consciousness, and Impostor Syndrome
“Before we even show up at the doorstep of an opportunity, we are teeming with dread and anxiety, borrowing trouble from a future that hasn’t yet unfolded.”
Intuition of the Instant: French Philosopher Gaston Bachelard on Our Paradoxical Experience of Time
“If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer…”
John O’Donohue on the Restlessness at the Heart of Creativity and the Paradox of Belonging
“There is a huge abyss within every mind. When we belong, we have an outside mooring to prevent us from falling into ourselves.”
The Best Science Books of 2015
From Earth’s largest-hearted creature to the interconnectedness of the universe, by way of Einstein and artificial intelligence.
The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness
“Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself.”
Why Can’t You Remember Your Future? Physicist Paul Davies on the Puzzlement of Why We Experience Time as Linear
The curious question of how and whether we can tell the difference between an experience and the memory of an experience.
The Confidence Game: What Con Artists Reveal About the Psychology of Trust and Why Even the Most Rational of Us Are Susceptible to Deception
“It’s the oldest story ever told. The story of belief — of the basic, irresistible, universal human need to believe in something that gives life meaning, something that reaffirms our view of ourselves, the world, and our place in it.”
The 15 Best Books of 2015
Rewarding reflections on time, love, loss, courage, creativity, and other transformations of the heart.
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
How the debris of a landmark disagreement became the foundation of our present ideas about the fabric of existence.
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