Reflections George Carlin Was Right About Your Stuff
In 1986, George Carlin explained that a house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it. He meant it as a joke. He also meant it.
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Reflections We Travel to Lose Ourselves. The Hard Part Is Letting It Happen.
Pico Iyer said we travel first to lose ourselves, then to find ourselves. He was right about both. Most of us skip the first part entirely.
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Reflections The Hardest Thing About Arriving Somewhere New
Ibn Battuta walked 75,000 miles across the known world in the 1300s. He had a lot of opinions about arrival.
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Reflections Somewhere Between Enlightenment and a Good Night's Sleep
The Buddha said to live in the present moment. He did not mention that the present moment would contain a to-do list.
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Reflections Nobody Is Coming to Save You, and That's Actually Good News
Viktor Frankl found the gap between what happens and what you do about it while surviving conditions that should have closed it permanently.
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Reflections Mark Twain Invented the Group Chat
Mark Twain said this before anyone had a timeline to post on. He could not have imagined how thoroughly we would ignore him.
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Reflections Wu Wei Isn't Laziness — It's Leverage
The old Taoist idea of effortless action is not about doing nothing. It's about doing the one thing that makes the rest unnecessary.
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Reflections The Wrecks Under Chuuk Lagoon
Fifty feet below the Pacific, a Japanese destroyer has been growing coral since 1944. What exploration leaves on you is not always what you expected to carry.
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Reflections Belonging Without Capture
The need to belong is real. The trap that comes with it is just as real. There is a way through that does not require choosing between them.
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Reflections The SEALs Discovered the Oldest Lesson in History
Navy SEAL training is an extreme version of something every wisdom tradition already knew: constraint is not the enemy of growth. It is the mechanism.
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Reflections Comfort Without Purpose Is Its Own Trap
A comedy about two men who swap lives gets at something the self-help section never quite says plainly.
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Reflections Awe Is Not a Reward — It's a Reset
Research on wonder says the feeling that makes you forget your problems isn't wasted time. It is the most efficient thing you can do.
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