Improvement, part 3
Social media encourages people to project unrealistic lives into the universe for the rest of us to envy.
Improvement, part 2
The US market for self-help books has nearly doubled since 2013.
Improvement, part 1
There is an almost-unquestionable assumption baked into modern western culture …
Impermanence, final (for now)
Some of the events in our life are within our control while others are not.
Impermanence, part 4
We are storied creatures. We cannot help but live by stories.
Impermanence, part 3
There is nothing inherently wrong with creating a story …
Impermanence, part 2
Telling a story about a thought, feeling, or experience …
Impermanence, part 1
Dualities like “us and them” are one of the ways our stories lead to confusion between reality and interpretation.
Us and them
The stories we tell are frameworks to structure experience.
Primitive in our language
“I knocked it out of the park.”