The Examined Writer
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The Examined Writer
Socrates expounded upon this concept when he offered that “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Anthony Raymond • Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)
The writer and psychoanalyst Marion Milner, on the value of writing and journaling:
I had often thought that novelists and poets had a special advantage in learning how to live, their writings providing them with an instrument that most of us were denied. By being able to dramatize their own difficulties they were in a far better position for solvin... See more
Celine Nguyen • Celine Nguyen on Substack
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I took a course on the philosophical novel, taught by Maria Němcová Banerjee, an expert on Milan Kundera’s work, and began to think about how novels engage intellectual traditions, how they can make use of and even serve as a form of philosophy.
Cara Blue • Why I've been writing criticism
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an unexamined life is one in which we do not engage in conversation with others or even ourselves about the nature of these fundamental concepts, but rather behave in accordance with our unreflective grasp of those concepts.
Mitchell S. Green • Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge
I see hundreds, actually thousands, of online writing courses popping up on the Internet. Nearly all of them involve some cohort based model that trains people on how to write consistently for an online audience (for engagement).
The creators have already solved the riddle of content-driven writing, and they will show you how to crack the code.
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The creators have already solved the riddle of content-driven writing, and they will show you how to crack the code.
Life... See more
Luke Burgis • Why I Write
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If this all sounds overly theoretical and not at all applicable to your lived experience, then fine. But how often have you gone back to read an old edition of your favorite newsletter? Why bother when you’ll have a new one tomorrow?
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
If you try to live without a philosophy of life, you will find yourself extemporizing your way through your days. As a result, your daily efforts are likely to be haphazard, and your life is likely to be misspent. What a waste!