How can we come to know ourselves well enough to be able to live life with confidence, clarity, and purpose?

Journaling is great, but if you think you are going to truly understand yourself by simply writing whatever comes into your head every morning, you are wrong.

You need to be able to ask the right questions in order to go deeper into yourself.

To me, the takeaway is that understanding is worth pursuing, even though we almost always fail. There’s a David Graeber line that always make me cry: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” I don’t actually think it’s true that we can easily make it differently. But ... See more