We all could agree that nowadays, attention is our best asset, meaning our time's investment.
Yes, we are in the era of the attention economy, if you didn't know already. And obviously, there’s a vast global industry dedicated to distracting us and exploiting our best resource: attention.
But framing distraction as a war between the individual and relentless capitalist
Intellectual humility is a mindset. It doesn't come by default, as it challenges our sense of identity and our need to be right.
Intellectual humility forces us to reconsider our particular and biased view of the world, the same way science does, by first, recognizing and owning our intellectual limitations, and prioritizing pursuing deeper knowledge, truth, and understanding.
We all have heard about the word Serendipity, and we have for sure used to explain the magic of certain apparently random circumstances.
But for researcher Dr Christian Busch, Serendipity is smart, active luck. Is that capacity of seeing meaning in the
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Loneliness and solitude are not directly opposites, but they are extremely different by definition. And the first, is not an intrinsically consequence of the second.
"Loneliness only occurs when that specific, individual requirement goes unmet" -as Olivia Laing beautifully states in
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If I could summarize in a very concrete and sublime way, why I have decided to do what I am doing professionally, that will be David Foster Wallace‘s 2005 commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College. (The speech was made into a thin book titled:
