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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Winnicott’s crucial insight was that the parents’ agony was coming from a particular place: excessive hope. Their despair was a consequence of a cruel and counterproductive perfectionism. To help them reduce this, Winnicott developed a charming phrase: ‘the good enough parent’. No child, he insisted, needs an ideal parent. They just need an OK, pre
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Jennifer Matthews puts it in her excellently titled short book Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are,
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Appearance counts. On the page as on the body.
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
Their strengths lie partly in their imperfections.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
But none of the books she read and none of the television shows and films she enjoyed reflected that lifestyle.
Lisa Taddeo • Three Women: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘The sun has gone over the yardarm,’