Reads tagged with “psychology”
Why Our Partners Drive Us Mad: Alain de Botton to the Central Challenge of Human Relationships and How to Heal It
“We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.”
The Greatest Science Books of 2016
From the sound of spacetime to time travel to the microbiome, by way of polar bears, dogs, and trees.
Descartes on the Cure for Indecision
“There are no grounds for fear of the unknown: for often the things we most dreaded, before we experienced them, turn out to be better than those we desired.”
Elena Ferrante on the Myth of Inspiration, Writing on Demand, and the Central Truth of the Creative Process
“Words draw out words: one can always write a banal, elegant, heartfelt, amusing coherent page on any subject, low or high, simple or complex, frivolous or fundamental.”
Albert Camus on the Will to Live and the Most Important Question of Existence
“The body’s judgment is as good as the mind’s… We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness
“The key is building fires where you can warm yourself as you wait for the tempest to pass.”
Legendary Physicist David Bohm on the Paradox of Communication, the Crucial Difference Between Discussion and Dialogue, and What Is Keeping Us from Listening to One Another
“If we are to live in harmony with ourselves and with nature, we need to be able to communicate freely in a creative movement in which no one permanently holds to or otherwise defends his own ideas.”
Genes and the Holy G: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Dark Cultural History of IQ and Why We Can’t Measure Intelligence
“If the history of medical genetics teaches us one lesson, it is [that] genes cannot tell us how to categorize or comprehend human diversity; environments can, cultures can, geographies can, histories can.”
Carl Sagan on Moving Beyond Us vs. Them, Bridging Conviction with Compassion, and Meeting Ignorance with Kindness
“In the course of looking deeply within ourselves, we may challenge notions that give comfort before the terrors of the world.”
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