What Does Childhood Trauma Have to Do With White Supremacy?
Extremism doesn’t begin with a single event. Multiple adverse experiences can add up to give rise to extremist beliefs.
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The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one mother who wished for her son to become a scientist. “If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” Given that the deepest measure of intelligence is a plasticity of being that allows us to…
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8 Books To Help You Embrace a Cozy Fall
The cozy fall season is coming and these books will encourage you to curl up with a cup of tea and get reading. With this list, you’ll welcome the cooler weather and even rainy days. In between… The post 8 Books To Help You Embrace a Cozy Fall appeared first on Be More with Less.
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When Someone Won’t See How Their Behavior Impacts Others
When someone keeps getting the same negative feedback from others but refuses to accept it or change. What then?
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You Don’t Have to Wait for Life to Calm Down
Most people have a version of this thought: I’ll start living for what matters once things ease up. New research suggests this reasoning is built on a false assumption.
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What Drives a Killer Instinct for Success
Why do some people keep pursuing difficult goals while others give up? Psychology uncovers the mindsets that power persistence, resilience, and the killer instinct.
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Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest
The current of life is charged by the poles of hope and despair. What we make of our hopes and their devastation may be the purest measure of who we are and what we leave behind. Protest is what we call the resistance we launch against our reasons for despair — personal, political, existential. Although…
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How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love
“Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily Dickinson sighed in one of her love letters to Susan an epoch before Kurt Vonnegut, in a short and lovely poem, distilled happiness to the knowledge that you have enough. It is not an easy knowledge to live with amid…
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Current-Events Man: Lost in the Endless News Cycle
Following the news closely can make us feel informed while leaving us without the context needed to understand what we’re seeing. Deeper landmarks help us connect events into a larger picture and keep our bearings in the endless news cycle. Is the person who follows the most news necessarily the most informed? We tend to…
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God & Rape: The Problem of Evil
God & Rape: The Problem of Evil Way back in 2012, Republican Richard Mourdock said he believed that abortion is acceptable only to save the life of the mother. Then he went on to say: “Life is that gift from God. I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it…
