You Are a Person, Not a Pickle

Any way we want to think about our work, any aspirations we may have, are perfectly fine – as long as we recognize and take responsibility for them.

There are infinite quotidian human experiences ripe for interpreting: putting off housework, caring about who I sit next to at a dinner party, struggling to get dressed. They stack up every day. I’m particularly fond of using them to draw ungenerous conclusions: I’m shallow, selfish, lazy, dishonest. I’ve trained myself away from defending my goodn... See more