Personality tests are fun. There’s something strangely satisfying about answering a few dozen questions and being handed a tidy description of who you are. You’re an INFJ. High in openness. An introvert. Suddenly, parts of your personality have names. But knowing your personality type isn’t the same thing as knowing yourself. “The unexamined life is…
“Self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.” “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,” E.E….
The internet is full of mental health resource lists, but they tend to feature the same websites, apps, worksheets, and crisis resources over and over again. This isn’t one of those lists. For this collection, I went looking for the resources that are harder to find: tools buried on university websites, free workbooks from hospitals…
“It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.” Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883–June 3, 1924) was one of history’s most prolific and expressive…
An earlier version of this article appeared November 4, 2021 A morning routine is easier to keep when it’s treated as a set of individual habits rather than one large aim. Some quick tips: Break your morning routine into concrete, trackable habits Use the Four Tendencies framework (Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, Rebel) to match the routine…
