You cannot fail at being yourself.
If you do not, your parents for sure will remember Wayne Dyer, and most probably they have read or at least heard from his first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), one of the
...When we're in a new place, we've all wondered where the bathroom is. And the automatic answer that comes to mind is: "Down the hall to your right". But this isn’t always the case. In fact, most of the time, to know where the bathroom is, we have to ask again or go and find it ourselves. This seems like a good analogy for a space where I can only give you some coordinates.
The way to it, however, you will have to discover yourself. My role is only to channel different ways of seeing and explaining how we function. I present them to you and raise questions so you can find your own answers or at the very least, start to go out and look for them.
If you do not, your parents for sure will remember Wayne Dyer, and most probably they have read or at least heard from his first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), one of the
...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: ...
"Thoughts determine feelings. Remember that. Make a note. Get a tattoo. This powerful idea goes back thousands of years to the Stoics".
Feelings aren’t truth incarnate.
Emotions are useful, but they are our biological suggestions, not commandments. Our brain is a pattern-recognition machine. It makes observations and starts forming rules about the world. It’s really
...Alexandra Schwartz makes an hilarious scrutiny of our society's obsessive urge of continuously seeking to be "the best version of ourselves" by pointing out from the neverending technological resources available to the infallible advice offered by best selling authors like ...
Maybe you are not like this guy (who decided to remain anonymous) that "has it all", and you are far to relate to his wealthy life conditions, but it's more than probable that maybe, at some point, you felt that, being who you are and having achieved what you did, you weren't allowed to feel
...We've always known that something was extremely weird in an adolescent brain. We have all been there (and suffered it!), and some of us have to interact with a teenager on a daily basis. I am talking about dealing with a biological teenager's brain, not with someone that's behaving like one but has long ago overcome his 20's (this is a complete different story, and an argument for a whole new
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