Maria Popova on what trees know about resilience, surrender, and the deep time of becoming — a meditation on letting go, drawn from a poem that was first read aloud at the Universe in Verse.
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everythingstudies.comWhat sort of people would be considered weird if nerdiness was the norm?
Shane Parrish on the conversations we have with ourselves — and how the quality of those internal dialogues quietly shapes the quality of everything we do.
map.simonsarris.comAgency is the capacity to act. More subtly: An individual’s life can continue, with a certain inertia, that will lead them on to the next year or decade. Most people today more-or-less know what they are going to be doing for the first twenty-or-more years of their life - being in some kind of school (the “doing” is almost more “being told what to do”).