Improvement, part 5
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Personal confession: for those who speak Enneagram, I am a ONE.
Improvement, part 4
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The constant push to improve is not only exhausting.
Improvement, part 3
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Social media encourages people to project unrealistic lives into the universe for the rest of us to envy.
Improvement, part 2
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The US market for self-help books has nearly doubled since 2013.
Improvement, part 1
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There is an almost-unquestionable assumption baked into modern western culture …
Convergence, part 3
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In the mingling of the rivers, there are so many stories …
Convergence, part 2
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As the river that is a life – a library of tales, fables, myths, legends, poems and narratives of every description – approaches the ocean …
Convergence, part 1
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One of the places our stories converge is around loss and grief.
Persuasion
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When humans want to make sense of something, we look for the familiar.
Power’s paradox
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There is an important insight about the psycho-spiritual journey …