Andrew McCluskey

The supplement industry might be the purest expression of the Hedonist's Stone in action. It's built entirely on the promise that you can achieve optimal health through consumption rather than lifestyle change.

The Germans have a single word for a face that’s badly in need of a fist - “Backpfeifengesicht ”.

the idea of empathy itself only dates to the late eighteenth century. The notion was invented by psycho-physiologist Wilhelm Wundt to describe our ability to experience another’s experience, and different, Wundt thought, from sympathy and compassion. Empathy is about the transmission of information; sympathy and compassion are reactions to that

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People naturally remember musical language, and I would encourage writers to inject their prose with a bit of music. When you’re writing, think about repetition and variety. Crescendos and rests. Pace and punctuation. Read your work out loud, and feel the rhythm of the words in your voice.