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Starting New Love While Still Hung Up on an Ex
In the pantheon of modern villains of love, there is one character who stands out as worthy of particular condemnation:…
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Why Small Pleasures Become a Bigger, Not a Smaller Deal, the More We Suffer and Age
The more challenging existence as a whole becomes, the more we may appreciate what remains pure and hopeful, despite its modest appearance or lack of obvious glamour.
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What Should a Good Therapist Do For Us?
It can be hard to get a clear sense of how therapy actually works and what we would ideally gain from it. We propose that a good therapist should do the following:
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What We Might Learn from the Dandies of the Congo
One is dressed not in order to be practical for the long-term, but in order to look awe-inspiringly beautiful today: to brighten one’s surroundings and gladden one’s friends and colleagues.
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Love Our Bears
We gathered at The School of Life to discuss something unusual: our teddy bears. A group of us, all of…
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Work
How to Steal a Very Expensive House
There’s a common assumption that the only way to own a beautiful house, or car or piece of clothing is…
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Calm
The Consolations of Deep Time
Thinking about the age of the earth is – unexpectedly perhaps – among the more consoling and calming of all…
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Self-Knowledge
A Simple Exercise to Help Us Find Direction
It can be hard to know what to do next in relation to many challenges we face. Maybe we’ve left…
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How Wounded People Seek Out Further Punishment
There’s a bitter paradox that awaits many of us who have suffered from harsh, unloving childhoods: we have an above-average chance…
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When Evil Walks Into Our Lives…
One of our basic beliefs is that the people we come across will not, fundamentally, be bad or malevolent. We…
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What Are Germaphobes Really Scared Of?
It is tempting to have a laugh at germaphobes. Look at them cleaning the handle of the oven with powerful…
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Why Are Some of Us Hoarders?
We should start with a large caveat; one person’s ‘hoarding’ is another person’s ‘collecting’ or ‘not throwing things randomly away’…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Love Our Bears
We gathered at The School of Life to discuss something unusual: our teddy bears. A group of us, all of…
View
Work
How to Steal a Very Expensive House
There’s a common assumption that the only way to own a beautiful house, or car or piece of clothing is…
View
Calm
The Consolations of Deep Time
Thinking about the age of the earth is – unexpectedly perhaps – among the more consoling and calming of all…
View
Self-Knowledge
A Simple Exercise to Help Us Find Direction
It can be hard to know what to do next in relation to many challenges we face. Maybe we’ve left…
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Self-Knowledge
How Wounded People Seek Out Further Punishment
There’s a bitter paradox that awaits many of us who have suffered from harsh, unloving childhoods: we have an above-average chance…
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Self-Knowledge
When Evil Walks Into Our Lives…
One of our basic beliefs is that the people we come across will not, fundamentally, be bad or malevolent. We…
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Self-Knowledge
What Are Germaphobes Really Scared Of?
It is tempting to have a laugh at germaphobes. Look at them cleaning the handle of the oven with powerful…
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Self-Knowledge
Why Are Some of Us Hoarders?
We should start with a large caveat; one person’s ‘hoarding’ is another person’s ‘collecting’ or ‘not throwing things randomly away’…
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