If You Want to Be Smart, You Must Do This
There are lots of smart people. There are not a lot of people who can do this smart thing. The poet John Keats called it “negative capability”—the mental fortitude to be able to entertain multiple
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The Problem With This Popular Advice
When I started writing, I followed the advice a lot of writers follow: hit a word count. Write a thousand words a day. Two thousand. Whatever the number. Then I came across what, for years, I thought
A Stoic Guide To Navigating The Modern Workplace
The image of the Zen philosopher is the monk up in the green, quiet hills, or in a beautiful temple on some rocky cliff. The Stoic, on the other hand, is the antithesis of this idea. The Stoic is the
This Is The Most Important Skill You Can Have In Life
I hated writing essays in high school, but they changed my life. Not because of the subject matter or anything. With one exception, I can’t remember what any of them were about. The one I remember is
This Question Will Change Your (Reading) Life
When I was a teenager, I began a habit that would change the course of my entire life. I don’t mean to overstate it — it was simple, just a question I would ask the people I met — but without it, I’m