rob hardy

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

― La Rochefoucauld

It would sure make things easy if this election were a simple contest of good versus evil. But this is the way of thinking that is tearing the world apart. Those who think that way always consider themselves to be members of Team Good, of course. If your opponent is evil incarnate, then any means to stop him are justified.

you don’t build self trust by monitoring yourself constantly to see if you’re trustworthy

95% of “overthinking” is unprocessed emotion wearing a rational disguise.

You don’t need more logic. You need to feel the discomfort you’re avoiding.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

A conversation’s trajectory shapes not just what is said, but what becomes possible to say, in turn.