Sublime

Moving On

This genius, as we will see, is less about a role or skill and more about a quality of consciousness.

The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we have opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.

It is a way to develop your capacity to be in the moment, so as to appreciate the atelic counterparts of the telic activities that matter to you.

5. Reframe the way you think about identity loss.

if your calling is to make things, then you still have to make things in order to live out your highest creative potential—and also in order to remain sane. Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs

A well-functioning mind recognizes the futility and cruelty of constantly finding fault with its own nature.

“fully human”