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Are we doomed if we have a bright child? No, we simply have to pay closer attention to their particular ways of navigating the world.

A wound mate relationship can initially feel intense and intimate, like you’ve found your soul mate. But these relationships can potentially lead to heartache.

Weekend Wisdom: When someone shares something on the internet that I don’t like, I am allowed to move on without being bothered. I went to a department/grocery store last week to pick up a few items fall… The post 90/90 rule for decluttering + the fix everything smoothie appeared first on Be More with Less.

We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for every raindrop and every eyelash to get through the daily tasks punctuating the unbidden wonder of our lives. But…

“Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is… on each person… creatively making the meaning of life a reality in his or her own being.” “To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus wrote in his…

  In his Foundation universe Isaac Asimov introduced the fictional scientific field of psychohistory. In this science fiction setting, it could predict the future by analyzing data and making inductive inferences using various algorithms and formulas. The predictions are not about specific individuals, but broad events. For example, it could predict the fall of the Empire…

We are shaped by all we have suffered — by what harrows us — and in turn shape our lives by how we hold our harrowing. Harrow shares its Middle English root with harvest. It is by suffering, and by what we make of our suffering, that our personhood ripens in us, that we come…

“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.” “A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,” William James wrote in his pioneering 1884 theory of how our bodies affect our feelings — the first great gauntlet thrown at the Cartesian dualism of body versus mind. In the century and a half since,…

Whether watching true crime or live trials, there is a lesson to be learned in how to agree to disagree.