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The Kind of Happiness We Should Be Sad About
Given how hard it is to be happy, it seems churlish and mean to say of anyone that they might…
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How Does an Emotionally Healthy Person Relate to Their Career?
When it comes to work, we aren’t ever just dealing with concerns for money and opportunities, but also always with that more acute subject: emotional maturity.
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The Dangers of People Who Have Been to Boarding School
Boarding schools can be exceptional places, but where they tend to lag is in instilling in their pupils any notion of the constituents of an emotionally viable life.
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Why Do We Work So Hard?
Deep down, we know that there is also – alongside money – something more complicated that we use the idea of work to avoid.
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Love and ‘The Waste Land’
‘The Waste Land’ is the name of a poem published in 1922 by the Anglo-American writer T. S. Eliot. Widely…
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Relationships
Love Lessons
It can be easy to feel – as we look back on our love lives – that we have been…
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Sociability
When People Start To Get Interesting…
We may spend a considerable portion of our lives chewing over – in the background – a highly consequential-sounding question:…
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Self-Knowledge
Learning To Be More Immature
Most of us need, of course, to make every effort to behave more maturely around other people: that is, to…
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Self-Knowledge
Understanding The Fear of Intimacy
The feeling of disdain is widespread for those who are said to be, behind the smiles, ‘afraid of intimacy’, or…
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Work
Thinking Well in the Age of AI
A Practice for Slowing Down We are entering an era in which thinking could become optional. At almost any moment,…
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Self-Knowledge
Why Don’t We All Go Mad?
We know the scene well enough. A supermarket aisle; a three-year-old, a stressed mother, and a conflict. He wanted a…
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Relationships
Maybe You Really Were Too Good for Them
It’s one of the harder ideas to take on board – if we’re modest and kind people, which we are,…
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