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Why We Should Refuse to Get into Arguments
However deep our theoretical commitment to serenity, in the course of an average day, we are likely to encounter a…
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Everything Is So Weird
There are moments, terrifying but also useful, vertiginous, comedic and in their own way filled grandeur and beauty, when we leave ordinary reality behind and perceive everything as for once entirely and profoundly weird.
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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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Self-Knowledge
The Origins of a Sense of Persecution
In the privacy of our minds, in a zone too tender and shameful to be readily admitted to, many of…
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Self-Knowledge
The Origins of Sanity
Though politeness tends to stop us from dwelling on the point, all babies start off – as we might put…
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Relationships
Who is Afraid of Intimacy?
Sometimes we may end up in a couple where we spend a lot of time complaining – to concerned friends…
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Sociability
Why Nice People Give Us the ‘Ick’
There are many things that might disrupt the mood of a promising early date: a sudden discovery of a maddening…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Should Practice Automatic Writing
Usually, when we set out to write, sounding coherent and polished are our central priorities. We may think hard before…
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Calm
Can We Live With the Truth?
We are primed to think well of people who have an appetite for truth: who want to find out the…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Deny Ourselves the Chance of Happiness
Happiness sounds like such an obviously desirable quality, the idea that a person might willingly turn it down makes –…
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Sociability
How to Become a More Interesting Person
We start with an unusual observation: there is a huge variance in how much we feel we have to say…
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Self-Knowledge
The Origins of a Sense of Persecution
In the privacy of our minds, in a zone too tender and shameful to be readily admitted to, many of…
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Self-Knowledge
The Origins of Sanity
Though politeness tends to stop us from dwelling on the point, all babies start off – as we might put…
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Relationships
Who is Afraid of Intimacy?
Sometimes we may end up in a couple where we spend a lot of time complaining – to concerned friends…
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Sociability
Why Nice People Give Us the ‘Ick’
There are many things that might disrupt the mood of a promising early date: a sudden discovery of a maddening…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Should Practice Automatic Writing
Usually, when we set out to write, sounding coherent and polished are our central priorities. We may think hard before…
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Calm
Can We Live With the Truth?
We are primed to think well of people who have an appetite for truth: who want to find out the…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Deny Ourselves the Chance of Happiness
Happiness sounds like such an obviously desirable quality, the idea that a person might willingly turn it down makes –…
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Sociability
How to Become a More Interesting Person
We start with an unusual observation: there is a huge variance in how much we feel we have to say…
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