Sublime

To sustain our originality as we age and accumulate expertise, our best bet is to adopt an experimental approach. We can make fewer plans in advance for what we want to create, and start testing out different kinds of tentative ideas and solutions.

“The more you think happiness is a social thing, the better off you are,” Brett explained to me, summarizing

Your feedback report from the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal® test recommends a skill for you to start with.

there seem to be only two aspects of personality that are to a fairly large extent genetically determined: extraversion and emotionality.

Balance Theory does is make some very clear predictions about which kinds of triad will be stable and which not.

O’Brien explains “ordinary self-consciousness” as involving “our capacity to be poised to soak in, be pervious to, to absorb, the evaluations of others in way that alters, and colours, our consciousness of ourselves” (2020: 557).