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You don’t need a 10-year plan. You need to experiment. | Anne-Laure Le Cunff
The uncomfortable question you should ask on every first date | Alain de Botton
Sophie’s World: The Best Book to Start Your Philosophy Journey
Why the world is going crazy—and how to win back our minds | Jamie Wheal | Big Think
You don’t need a 10-year plan. You need to experiment. | Anne-Laure Le Cunff
What if the secret to a meaningful life isn’t a five-year plan—but a five-day experiment? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff argues that in a world obsessed with goals, clarity, and productivity, the real path to growth lies in something much smaller...
Microexperimentos / Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World|Paperback
The uncomfortable question you should ask on every first date | Alain de Botton
“If two can learn to see each other as idiots, but loveable idiots, thats a beautiful moment in love” "You can't understand yourself, by just being with yourself."Love is more of a skill than an emotion""If soulmates exist, they are made, not found."...
If you’ve had trouble finding love, people have likely told you to stay optimistic and you’ll soon find it. But how realistic is that advice really? Alain de Botton unpacks why optimism can be antithetical to finding real love, and other myths that h...
The Course of Love: A Novel|Paperback
Love is a skill, not a feeling
The Architecture of Happiness|Paperback
We want to believe that love is guided by instinct, and that following our heart will lead us to our ideal soulmate. Alain de Botton argues that our romantic lives are shaped more by the emotional patterns we learned in childhood than by destiny.
On Love: A Novel|Paperback
Sophie’s World: The Best Book to Start Your Philosophy Journey
Today we're talking about a very unique and interesting book called Sophie's World. It was written by Justin Gaarder, a Norwegian author. He was formerly a philosophy teacher and published this book in 1991.
It's remarkable that this book has become very popular with both children and adults all over the world.
Translated into many languages and selling millions of copies. Sophie's World is not a simple novel.
It is a philosophical journey where Sophie, a 14-year-old girl, slowly discovers the world and
She begins to understand herself. She begins to receive strange letters, asking questions like “Who are you? Where does the world come?”From? Searching for answers to these questions, Sophie meets an invisible teacher, Albertonx, who teaches her the ...
The main theme of this book is thinking. Asking questions, understanding things, and
To understand the logic and meaning behind everything. This book reminds us that Curiosity is a human being's greatest strength. So let's begin this amazing journey.
Sophie's story begins on a perfectly ordinary day when she returns home from school.
It's remarkable that this book has become very popular with both children and adults all over the world.
Translated into many languages and selling millions of copies. Sophie's World is not a simple novel.
It is a philosophical journey where Sophie, a 14-year-old girl, slowly discovers the world and
She begins to understand herself. She begins to receive strange letters, asking questions like “Who are you? Where does the world come?”From? Searching for answers to these questions, Sophie meets an invisible teacher, Albertonx, who teaches her the ...
The main theme of this book is thinking. Asking questions, understanding things, and
To understand the logic and meaning behind everything. This book reminds us that Curiosity is a human being's greatest strength. So let's begin this amazing journey.
Sophie's story begins on a perfectly ordinary day when she returns home from school.
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (30th Anniversary Edition)|Paperback
Why the world is going crazy—and how to win back our minds | Jamie Wheal | Big Think
The speed at which civilization is progressing has become overwhelming for modern humans and has caused what Jamie Wheal (author of Recapture the Rapture, founder of the Flow Genome Project, and host of the Collective Insights Podcast) calls a “colla...
For many, Meaning 1.0 (organized religion) and Meaning 2.0 (modern liberalism) no longer provide the structure and guidance that they used to. "It does feel like the handrails, the things we used to look to for stability and security, have evaporated...
"If we've experienced a collapse of meaning, how do we go about restoring it?" In order to reach Meaning 3.0—which Wheal says is a blend of traditional religion and modern liberalism without the promise of an escape—we need to focus on mending trauma...
For many, Meaning 1.0 (organized religion) and Meaning 2.0 (modern liberalism) no longer provide the structure and guidance that they used to. "It does feel like the handrails, the things we used to look to for stability and security, have evaporated...
"If we've experienced a collapse of meaning, how do we go about restoring it?" In order to reach Meaning 3.0—which Wheal says is a blend of traditional religion and modern liberalism without the promise of an escape—we need to focus on mending trauma...
Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind|Hardcover
Can we reach Meaning 3.0, or is it too late?"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work|Paperback