Reads tagged with “psychology”
Adam Gopnik on Darwin’s Brilliant Strategy for Preempting Criticism and the True Mark of Genius
“In the back-and-forth of a self-made contest, both sides have a shot.”
The Yin-Yang of Fortune and Misfortune: Alan Watts on the Art of Learning Not to Think in Terms of Gain and Loss
“The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad.”
The Great French Artist Eugène Delacroix on Self-Doubt, Idea-Ambivalence, and the Cure for Procrastination
“I must never put off for a better day something that I could enjoy doing now.”
Philosopher Erich Fromm on the Art of Loving and What Is Keeping Us from Mastering It
“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.”
David Hume on Human Nature, the Myth of Selfishness, and Why Vanity Is Proof of Virtue Rather Than Vice
“To love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake [that] it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.”
Nicole Krauss’s Beautiful Letter to Van Gogh on Fear, Bravery, and How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns
“Bravery is always more intelligent than fear, since it is built on the foundation of what one knows about oneself: the knowledge of one’s strength and capacity, of one’s passion.”
Sex Is a Funny Word: An Intelligent and Inclusive Illustrated Primer on Sexuality
From crushes to gender identity, an honest, openhearted, and stereotype-defying celebration of our bodies.
Order, Disorder, and Oneself: French Polymath Paul Valéry on How to Never Misplace Anything
“Disorder comes of putting things in places you have laboriously thought up or finally discovered after a series of experiments, calculations, deviations, and successive swerves from your natural bent.”
Sylvia Plath on Free Will, the Pillars of Personhood, and What Makes Us Who We Are
“I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession.”
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