Personal Growth

There was in me an invincible summer

Franklin grew up poor, but went on to become one of the most influential people in the world. There’s always some luck involved in success…

We are problem-solvers. Funny thing is, we like to idealize a future in which this isn’t true. A future in which we can just lay on the…

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts

The voice in our head is the voice of the ego. The self we think we are, which is different from the true self.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect

In his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, psychologist Daniel Kahneman says that people are generally risk averse. That we feel the pain of…

Like a shipwreck we die going into ourselves

Here are the key points that jumped out at me while recently reading William Zinsser’s book On Writing Well. Zinsser taught writing at…

How I detach from the “drama of the mind.”

The hidden forces I’ve overlooked for years