#Stoicism

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her abiding insistence on choosing presence over productivity. But how do we really spend our days? In our era, the average human lifetime will contain two years of

Author: Nellie Bowles / Source: New York Times Photo illustration by Tracy Ma/The New York Times; Getty Images (vest) The wealthy of Silicon Valley ought to be living their very best lives right now. John Doerr, an early Amazon and Google investor, calls their moment “the greatest legal

Author: Jag Bhalla / Source: Big Think 1. The best we can hope for is “life, liberty and the pursuit of” stoic happiness. And that means we all need “happiness bootcamp” (to learn how harmful equating “happiness” with what’s beyond your control is). 2. That’s one key lesson from How to Be a

Author: Jennifer Beach / Source: Lifehack I’m sure you’re all more than familiar with the common clichés, “mind over matter,” and “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” But what you may not have known, is that these familiar turns of phrase are actually the paving stones of an ancient