“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.” -Nicolas Carr My Top 5 Books 2019 Simone De Beauvoir by Deirdre Bair (Biography): Recommend this book to anyone interested in how Simone turned from Sartre’s doll to a…
“Stillness is what aims the archer’s arrow. It inspires new ideas. It sharpens perspective and illuminates connections.” -Ryan Holiday Our generation is conditioned to believe that things can be achieved in an instant. There is a funny story related to this in Brene Brown’s Netflix special. She said that someone once approached her after a…
“Erase all thoughts”, the buddhist monk in front of us said. I was in a large classroom with over 30 people, none of whom were near my age. I did not tell my millennial friends that the reason I was skipping night outs was that I wanted to spend my Friday evenings meditating in the…
Amor fati: Lover of Fate. That one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it…” -Friedrich Nietzsche I…
Have you ever wondered why you start sounding like the person in front of you after hours of conversation? Neuroscience shows that humans are creatures of the environment. The existence of mirror neurons allows humans to observe and mirror the behavior of others actively. These social neural networks are what enables us to survive in…
