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Recovering your creativity: The Artist’s Way
Creativity is an energy. It’s intangible, and like any form of energy, it can’t be created or destroyed but displaced or converted…
Le Petit Prince and the gravity of friendship
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” - Antione de Saint-Exupéry
Rising from the ashes of chaos
Life isn’t much fun when it’s too chaotic. Most people dislike chaos, and for good reason. It marks uncertainty, doubt, disruption…
Finding meaning in the face of death
Victor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning explores how humans are driven to find purpose in life. He identifies three potential…
Language, ineffability, and Coldplay’s Politik
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” – Walter Pater
The happiness machine and accepting life as it is
In 1957, Ray Bradbury published a captivating short story called “The Happiness Machine,” which takes us back to a time of…
Trading uncertainty for the life of your dreams
"Don’t sleepwalk through life.” – Derren Brown
5 ways to prevent burnout in your corporate job
Whether you’ve experienced the grind of a corporate job or any job that leaves you feeling drained, unfulfilled, or powerless…
Why you should quit your job to pursue your passion
Cal Newport’s book So Good They Can’t Ignore You is about how people fall prey to a “Passion Hypothesis”…
3 reasons why time passes so quickly and how to slow it down
Lately, it feels like time is moving even faster than usual. The days fly by and soon enough we’re in another month…
5 essential steps to cultivate lasting happiness in your life
Happiness is a pursuit that resonates with all of us, yet the fast-paced nature of the world often makes it challenging to attain…
The importance of curating what you consume
I was inspired to write about the importance of curating what we consume by one of my favorite Brits, Derren Brown…
7 days of deep work
I recently read Cal Newport’s book, Deep Work, which is about reaching a state of concentration that enables you to learn hard things quickly.
The key to a fulfilling relationship
"Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly…”
How to improve your poetry (using Pablo Neruda as a guide)
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” - Pablo Neruda
Will AI replace creative writers?
A plethora of AI writing tools has populated the internet recently, causing writers to worry if their professions will be replaced…
The interconnectedness of the world and time
“They were all interwoven and interlocked, entwined in a thousand ways […] All of them together was the stream of events…”
Old lessons on learning and wisdom (Siddhartha Part I)
Siddhartha is a beautifully written spiritual novel by Hermann Hesse about a Nepalese man's journey of self-discovery and search for…
A book and a beverage: Anthem and a layered latte
“I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.” - Ayn Rand
Toltec wisdom on love and the nature of life
Love underlies everything; it’s just masked by a fog of pain and fear that we’ve been conditioned to feel…