Psychology
Introduction to Psychology
Seven days on the small set of moves that make ordinary emotional life easier, for the adult who was never taught how their inner life works.
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Meaning Under Pressure
Seven days with three writers who went looking for what suffering is for — and an honest account of how much of what they found actually holds up.
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Almost everyone eventually runs into the question of what suffering is for. Three writers of the last hundred years answered it out of three unrelated kinds of pressure — a Viennese psychiatrist deported in 1942, a man who came out of a long depression and spent the next two years mostly on a park bench, and a blunt voice out of the blogging internet. This path runs all three in sequence, then asks the harder question: how much of what they claim can actually be shown. You'll leave with three usable ways of relating to pain that isn't going away, a sense of which one fits which kind of bad day, and an honest map of where each one is strong and where it thins out.
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Three Rooms, One Question
Three writers who went looking for what suffering is for, and why they're better taken together than one at a time.
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Three Rooms, One Question
Three writers who went looking for what suffering is for, and why they're better taken together than one at a time.
Frankl I: What He Actually Saw
Frankl in the camps — what he observed, what the observation can and cannot support, and the famous line about the space between stimulus and response that he never wrote.
Frankl II: The Three Sources
Logotherapy — the three places Frankl says meaning comes from, and what the research on purpose and meaning actually shows.
Tolle I: The Mind That Isn't Here
Tolle's account of where suffering is manufactured, and the best evidence anyone has that he's onto something.
Tolle II: The Old Weight
Tolle's pain-body, what it gets right, and the well-documented process underneath it that has a less exotic name.
Manson: Choose the Problem
The bluntest voice on the list — suffering as the price of caring, and values as the one lever you actually control.
Three Doors, One Room
What the three writers produce together, what their agreement does and doesn't prove, and the popular claim about suffering that the research does not support.
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Psychology
How Your Mind Actually Works
Ten days on what is actually known about human judgment, which of the famous findings survived being checked, and how to tell the two apart yourself.
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Psychology
The Body and the Mind
Seven days on what the body actually contributes to psychological life — and on three of the most-read writers in the field, who disagree about where the leverage sits.
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