Sociability
How to Leave a Party
It is possible to catch a telling glimpse of our levels of underconfidence in a sad quirk of our approach…
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Calm
Escaping Into History
We should, at moments, be allowed to admit to longing to be living in a different age, and not to have to think about all the things that people of our times are so strongly supposed to be obsessed by.
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The Inevitability of Choice
There are so few public reminders of life’s necessary trade-offs. Yet once we understand the incompatibilities, we are in a better position to do what we always needed to do: choose.
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What Would Jesus Do?
The Christian exercise is ripe for secular re-adaptation. We should train ourselves to ask: What would a kind, calm and mature person do or say now?
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Sociability
On Becoming a Hermit
It’s one of the telling quirks of history that just as the world was growing ever noisier and more urbanised,…
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Calm
Auditing Our Worries
One of the basic courtesies we almost never remember to pay our worries is to go back and check how…
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Calm
Why We May Need a Convalescence
The word ‘convalescent’ has – tellingly and sadly – gone very much out of fashion. In the olden days, it…
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Sociability
How to Have a Renaissance
At the beginning of the 14th century, the leaders of an obscure Tuscan town on the banks of the river…
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Work
Giving Up on Being Special
We’re likely to try out many sorts of lives before we land, finally, on the quiet variety. Rarely does anyone…
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Relationships
Why You Will Never Quite Get it Right in Love
With time, we may be forced to reach a conclusion that, though hugely bitter, demands that we accept it with…
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Self-Knowledge
Am I a Bad Person?
We tend to spend a good deal of psychological energy warding off a possibility that feels as abhorrent as it…
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Calm
The Perils of Making Predictions
We tend to get very attached to plan As. We’ll get married, move into a house near the park, work…
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Sociability
On Becoming a Hermit
It’s one of the telling quirks of history that just as the world was growing ever noisier and more urbanised,…
View
Calm
Auditing Our Worries
One of the basic courtesies we almost never remember to pay our worries is to go back and check how…
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Calm
Why We May Need a Convalescence
The word ‘convalescent’ has – tellingly and sadly – gone very much out of fashion. In the olden days, it…
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Sociability
How to Have a Renaissance
At the beginning of the 14th century, the leaders of an obscure Tuscan town on the banks of the river…
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Work
Giving Up on Being Special
We’re likely to try out many sorts of lives before we land, finally, on the quiet variety. Rarely does anyone…
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Relationships
Why You Will Never Quite Get it Right in Love
With time, we may be forced to reach a conclusion that, though hugely bitter, demands that we accept it with…
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Self-Knowledge
Am I a Bad Person?
We tend to spend a good deal of psychological energy warding off a possibility that feels as abhorrent as it…
View
Calm
The Perils of Making Predictions
We tend to get very attached to plan As. We’ll get married, move into a house near the park, work…
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