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a lot of celebrated qualities are incompatible with each other. Ambition often comes with discontent; focus with rigidity; contentment with complacency. A couple that does everything together probably has fewer close friends. A social butterfly might have a messy house. These are crude examples, but it’s worth remembering that we all have to assess... See more
Parenting does not end; it matures. And, like all mature love, it asks for courage: to learn continually, to forgive repeatedly and to show up consistently, not as the all-knowing parent, but as a fellow human being, who still grows, too.
Julia Samuel • Adolescence lasts into your 30s – so how should parents treat their adult children?
I’m a natural skeptic who believes the beauty industry is fucking with women to sell more products. I really do think it starts with diet and exercise and sleep, beyond anything you apply topically. My beauty routine is consistent exercise, walking a lot, and drinking a ton of water.
Meet Mindy Seu — passerby magazine
Chocolate is hardly the only treat to be reborn as a wellness product. Supermarket shelves now boast chips with added protein, gut-friendly sodas and collagen oatmeal – all part of the fast-growing “functional foods” market, which is expected to reach $586bn globally by 2030.
Protein chips, sex chocolate: what are ‘functional foods’, and do they actually boost health?
The outcome of any concerted attempt at self-knowledge could be presumed to be a deep understanding of ourselves. But strangely, the real outcome is rather different. It appears that the more closely we explore our minds, the more we start to see how many tricks these organs can play on us – and therefore the more we will appreciate how often we
... See moreThe School of Life • Self-Knowledge (Essay Books)
The post-luxury status symbols I’ve outlined across this series - connected privacy, wasteful time, having children, niche expertise, creating community, quality sleep - all point to the same underlying desire: to reclaim what has been stolen and repackaged as luxury. The basics of human existence.
Eugene Healey • Post-Luxury status symbols #6: Quality Sleep
Romantic love has taken on excessive significance in modern times because it is supposed to fill the void left by other social bonds. Family, religion, community—all of these have lost their footing. So we charge love with meaning.
It is supposed to offer intimacy, belonging, identity, and even moral fulfillment. In a world where work and... See more
It is supposed to offer intimacy, belonging, identity, and even moral fulfillment. In a world where work and... See more