Whether by falling into narcissism, or obstinance and rigidity, or greed, or any other shallow denominator, it’s inevitable that at many points in our very human lives we will lose the plot. The difference between those who stray so far from the plot that it becomes lost forever and those who are able to course-correct is the simple act of paying a

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The concept that sits right at the heart of a sane and meaningful life, I’m increasingly convinced, is something like aliveness . It goes by other names, too, none of which quite nail it – but it’s the one thing that, so long as you navigate by it, you’ll never go too far wrong. Sometimes it feels like a subtle electrical charge behind what’s happe

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