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Giving Up on People Pleasing

The people pleaser needs to learn an unusual and little-mentioned art: that of giving up on people.

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The Benefits of Forgetfulness

We are rescued from many of our sorrows not by active solutions or nifty work of the intellect but by our reliable tendencies to forget.

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How to Leave a Party

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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On Becoming a Hermit

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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Auditing Our Worries

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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Am I a Bad Person?

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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