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- When stumped by a life choice, choose “enlargement” over happiness. I’m indebted to the Jungian therapist James Hollis for the insight that major personal decisions should be made not by asking, “Will this make me happy?”, but “Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me?” We’re terrible at predicting what will make us happy: the question swiftly ge... See more
from Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life by theguardian.com
Justsmile Magazine - Tremaine Emory on life & death, friendships & family, artifice & authenticity.
The Promise of Mimetic Theory as an Interdisciplinary Paradigm for Christian Scholars - Christian Scholar’s Review
Mimetic theory- The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... See more
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova
Artists on Artists: Stanley Whitney on Joan Mitchell's Fearless Career and the Drama of Painting
Q: Is it better to target a small market or a large one? In the clip below, Peter Thiel (billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir) describes his framework for evaluating markets: “It’s always a big mistake going after a giant market on day 1. That’s… Show moreKierkegaard's Christian Existentialism