Reads tagged with “psychology”
Keats on the Joy of Singledom and How Solitude Opens Our Creative Channels to Truth and Beauty
“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the Stars through the window pane are my Children… I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.”
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.”
Why We Write About Ourselves: Some of Today’s Most Celebrated Writers on the Art of Telling Personal Stories That Unravel Universal Truth
“Making art is all about humans and our psychology: who we are, how we behave, what we do with the hand we’ve been dealt. It’s closer to your own bone when it’s a memoir, but the bone is still the bone.”
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 Psychology of What Makes a Great Story
“The great writer’s gift to a reader is to make him a better writer.”
André Gide on Growing Happier as We Grow Older and Using Mortality as a Mobilizing Force for Creative Work
“Age cannot manage to empty either sensual pleasure of its attractiveness or the whole world of its charm.”
How to Treat the Symptoms of a Rising Reputation: David Hume on the Only Adequate Response to Haters
On choosing the turn of mind that expands your happiness rather than contracting it.
How You Spend Your Life: A Cinematic Sum of the Hours, Days, and Years Spent on Mundane Activities
An awakening anatomy of the average life’s two years of boredom, 6 months of watching commercials, 67 days of heartbreak, and 14 minutes of pure joy.
Artist Anne Truitt on Vulnerability, the Price of Integrity, and What Sustains the Creative Spirit
“It is not true that only artists understand art, for there are in every generation some people who not only understand it but also enhance its reach by appreciation.”
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