Reads tagged with “psychology”
Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Breakup
“I can’t consider you a friend when out of every contact there comes some intentionally wounding thing.”
Great Writers on the Power of Music
Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Aldous Huxley, Oliver Sacks, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, and more.
An Absorbing Errand: The Psychology of Mastery in Creative Work
“Life is better when you possess a sustaining practice that holds your desire, demands your attention, and requires effort.”
The Causes and Cures of Lovesickness: A 17th-Century Guide to the Woes of the Heart
“The many vexations and perturbations that torture the soul of the passionate lover bring about greater harms to men than all the other affections of the mind.”
The Charter of Free Inquiry: The Buddha’s Timeless Toolkit for Critical Thinking and Combating Dogmatism
“Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor…”
The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: A Trailblazing Exploration of Consciousness, Memory, and How Our Sense of Self Arises
“This is the very essence of memory: its self-referential base, its self-consciousness, ever evolving and ever changing, intrinsically dynamic and subjective.”
‘Humans of New York’ Founder Brandon Stanton on Serial Obsessions, How to Build a Sensibility, the Dignity-Conferring Power of Listening, and the Value of Time
“The most valuable resource you have is what you do with your time.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on How You Make Something Good in Creative Work
“Inexperienced writers tend to seek the recipes for writing well. You buy the cookbook, you take the list of ingredients, you follow the directions, and behold! A masterpiece! The Never-Falling Soufflé!”
The Ship of Theseus: A Brilliant Ancient Thought Experiment Exploring What Makes You You
“Which you is ‘who’? The person you are today? Five years ago? Who you’ll be in fifty years? And when is ‘am’? This week? Today? This hour? This second? And which aspect of you is ‘I’? Are you your physical body? Your thoughts and feelings? Your actions?”
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