Reads tagged with “psychology”

How to Live: Lessons from Montaigne

Don’t worry about death, pay attention, read a lot, give up control, embrace imperfection.

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Teenage Virginia Woolf on the Human Mind

“Activity of mind … is the only thing that keeps one’s life going.”

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A Wonderful New Year’s Resolution from Ursula Nordstrom, Unheralded Patron Saint of Modern Childhood

A lesson on the human condition from one of the biggest hearts in modern history.

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How to Lower Your “Worryability”: Italo Calvino’s 1950 New Year’s Resolution

“I would like this to signal the end of ‘wasted angst’ in my life.”

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Pioneering Biologist and Writer Rachel Carson on Wonder, Parenting, and Why It Is More Important to Feel Than to Know

“If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.”

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An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence

Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West.

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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

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How Long It Takes to Form a New Habit

Why magic numbers always require a grain of empirical salt.

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The 13 Best Books of 2013: The Definitive Annual Reading List of Overall Favorites

Soul-stirring, brain-expanding reads on intuition, love, grief, attention, education, and the meaning of life.

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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: Carl Sagan on Science and Spirituality

“If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”

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Reads tagged with “psychology”

Don’t worry about death, pay attention, read a lot, give up control, embrace imperfection.

“Activity of mind … is the only thing that keeps one’s life going.”

A lesson on the human condition from one of the biggest hearts in modern history.

“I would like this to signal the end of ‘wasted angst’ in my life.”

“If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.”

Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West.

Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

Why magic numbers always require a grain of empirical salt.

Soul-stirring, brain-expanding reads on intuition, love, grief, attention, education, and the meaning of life.

“If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”

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