-
-
The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom
“While we weaken friendships by expecting too little of them, we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them.” We move through the world largely unaware that our emotions are made of concepts — the brain’s coping mechanism for the blooming buzzing confusion of what we are. We label, we classify, we contain —…
-
An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection
“We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship.” Friendship is the sunshine of life — the quiet radiance that makes our lives not only livable but worth living. (This is why we must use the utmost care in how we wield…
-
The Capsule Wardrobe Formula That Makes Getting Dressed So Much Easier
This capsule wardrobe formula will help eliminate the stress around what to keep in your wardrobe. Decision fatigue can get in the way of letting go of clothes, but this capsule wardrobe formula will help you decide… The post The Capsule Wardrobe Formula That Makes Getting Dressed So Much Easier appeared first on Be More…
-
What Birds Dream About: How Evolution Invented REM in the Avian Brain So We May Practice the Possible in Our Sleep
“It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain.” This essay originally appeared in The New York Times I once dreamed…
-
How Patterns Change
“There is no description of a life without an account of the changes that are possible within it,” Adam Philips writes in his superb meditation on our ambivalent desire for change — ambivalence brilliantly rendered in the Vampire Problem thought experiment, illustrating the paradoxical psychology of why have such a hard time changing, breaking the…
-
Introductory Conference: Purdue Cognition, Agency, & Intelligence Center.
Hi All, We’re happy to help announce the launch of the Cognition, Agency, & Intelligence Center. Please see information about their introductory conference below! Description: We are thrilled to invite you to attend the Interdisciplinary Conference in Cognitive Science, hosted by the Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center (CAIC) at Purdue … Share this… Linkedin Facebook…
-
Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master,” Elizabeth Bishop wrote in one of the great masterpieces of poetry. “Every mortal loss is an Immortal Gain,” William Blake wrote two centuries before her in his beautiful letter to a bereaved father. We dream of immortality because we are creatures made of loss — the death…
-
Cleaning Your Own Toilet
Like most people, I do not enjoy cleaning but see living in filth unacceptable. Some years ago, I complained about cleaning and was asked why I did not hire someone to do it for me. Being a philosopher, I thought it though and concluded that I would keep doing my own cleaning. To be honest,…
-
Trauma, Transformation, and the Courage of Uncertainty: Prentis Hemphill on the Key to Breaking Our Patterns
“There is no description of a life without an account of the changes that are possible within it,” Adam Philips writes in his superb meditation on our ambivalent desire for change — ambivalence brilliantly rendered in the Vampire Problem thought experiment, illustrating the paradoxical psychology of why have such a hard time changing, breaking the…
