Human behavior
How we think and feel
Human behavior
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first... See more
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty w he t he r in a similar situation he might not have done t he same.
Viktor E. Frankl
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty w he t he r in a similar situation he might not have done t he same.
Daily Review | Readwise
Die With Zero
Bill Perkins
Unfortunately, in real life you rarely get an exact date for when you will no longer be able to do something—these things just seem to fade away. And until they’re gone...
Bill Perkins
Unfortunately, in real life you rarely get an exact date for when you will no longer be able to do something—these things just seem to fade away. And until they’re gone...
Nico Walker • Daily Review | Readwise
The fact that history repeats itself does not make it less unpleasant the second or third time around. But perhaps it helps us understand better how to react to this anger.
Esther Duflo • Good Economics for Hard Times
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been
... See moreadvantaged groups, Jost and his colleagues concluded: “People who suffer the most from a given state of affairs are paradoxically the least likely to question, challenge, reject, or change it.”
Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Because the brain mediates our experience of the world, any neurosurgical problem forces a patient and family, ideally with a doctor as a guide, to answer this question: What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Who becomes a good sailor without knowledge of storms?
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present.