The Ordeal of Change
making the chaos of the world work for you; it means dropping a fixed, static identity-which is always your most vulnerable point-and finding the freedom to adopt a series of superficial, provisional ones, all of which become incorporated into an ever-growing you.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
existential dilemma, or the undercurrent of confusion and fear that accompanies living in a vast world where everything is impermanent.
Brad Stulberg • Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You
It will be hard to see ahead to the future, and life will be filled with anxiety. A more painful and unhappy life might lie ahead. Simply put, people have various complaints about things, but it’s easier and more secure to be just the way one is.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
What I soon discovered is that a host of unprecedented forces are reshaping contemporary life—technological, political, spiritual, sexual—yet the techniques we use to make meaning of our lives have not kept up. We’re going through transitions more frequently, but our tool kit for handling them has not changed to keep pace.