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- paradoxical psychology of romance
- stoic's key to a peace of mind
- speaking inconvenient truth to power
- unrequited love for the universe
- guide to haters
- what it means to be human
- anais nin and real love
- anais nin and embracing the unfamiliar
- emotional excess and creativity
- self-criticism
- attention and love
- figuring
- discipline and stopping others from defining you
- how reading shaped Jane Goodall's life
- descartes on wonderment
- optimism and despair
- seven layers of identity in literature and life
- epidemic of identity politics
- political power of art
- antidote to violence
- kinship and unity
- action and pursuit of happiness
- French revolution
- the paradox of freedom
- democracy and optimism as a form of resistance
- cowardice of cynicism and courage to create instead of tear down
- against the illusion of separateness
- rewriting the world's broken stories
- political manipulation
- perspective in the age of opinion
- insight into race and reality
- hope, the difficult art of taking responsibility, and the inner voice
- time, self, impermanence, and transcendence
- you can't have it all
- measure of a life well-lived and how to maximise our aliveness
- hope in dark times, resisting despair, and social change
- subjective vs objective reality
- truth, lies, the power and peril of metaphor
- giving space in love
- response to a fascist's provocation
- power-knowledge vs. love-knowledge
- vital role of boredom
- love letters
- courage to disillusion yourself
- adventures in the art of being alone
- the basis of culture
- fixed vs growth
- what it means to be a moral human being
- beauty vs interestingness
- visual culture and the social web
- creative purpose of boredom
- literature and freedom
- science of stress
- the courage to be yourself
- the will to doubt
- telling is listening
- freedom and how we imprison ourselves
- why we read
- paradoxical rewards of our capacity for disappointment
- solstice, seasonality, and the human spirit
- how our minds and bodies converge in healing of trauma
- the transactional self
- the power of cautionary questions
- creative success and being a working artist
- the gutsy girl
- motivation dissatisfaction fuels creativity
- advice on writing
- strung out in heaven
- why we write about ourselves
- fluidity of gender and sexuality
- finding your calling
- how art, science, and religion explain the universe
- science, quantum theory, and our spiritual values
- paradoxes of love
- depression and the rehabilitation of hope
- the human mosaic of beauty and madness
- acts that amplify
- tools for warding off the darkness
- ode to the imagination and the power of kindness
- self-liberation
- the new better off
- just-like-that
- facing the blank page
- the trouble with finding yourself
- the blue songbird
- the true value of education
- how relationships refine us
- how to find your bliss
- the uncomfortable art of letting yourself be seen
- how to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself
- how to find yourself
- a life of one's own
- broadcasters of the self
- best of brain pickings 2018
- favourite books of 2018
- 10 learnings from 10 years
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