Sublime

the powerful effects of restoring play to our daily lives.

In short, several generations, including my own, were not taught the skills they would need in order to see, understand, and respect other people in all their depth and dignity. The breakdown in basic moral skills produced disconnection, alienation, and a culture in which cruelty was permitted. Our failure to treat each other well in the small enco

I’ve come to believe that wise people don’t tell us what to do; they start by witnessing our story. They take the anecdotes, rationalizations, and episodes we tell, and see us in a noble struggle. They see the way we’re navigating the dialectics of life—intimacy versus independence, control versus uncertainty—and understand that our current self is

A generation after the importance of narrative identity advanced to the heart of modern psychology, we have greater appreciation that each of us has a personal story—or, more accurately, a collection of personal stories—that we use to nurture our well-being.

When we begin to gather data in an effort to figure out what truly strengthens him, we begin to see — surprise, surprise, surprise — that he was more energized and fulfilled when he was helping others, when he wasn’t worrying about being somebody, when he wasn’t striving to prove anything. And as we looked around, we could see that the opportunitie

The precursor to authentic success is the growth of a sense of self that feels robust and genuine.