Psychology
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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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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Most adults are not taught about their inner emotional life. They learn what they saw at home, which was often badly done, and then they spend decades managing emotions with tools that don't work. This path covers the small set of moves that make ordinary emotional life easier — not therapy, not optimization, just basic literacy. Seven days. One move each day. By the end you'll have a working toolkit for the inner moments that affect everything else.
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Most Adults Were Never Taught This Either
Why almost every adult is operating without basic emotional literacy — and why that's not a personal failing.
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Most Adults Were Never Taught This Either
Why almost every adult is operating without basic emotional literacy — and why that's not a personal failing.
Your Thoughts Are Not Facts
The single most useful distinction in psychological self-management — recognizing that the things your mind produces are not reality.
Emotions Are Information
What emotions actually are — and why the cultural framing of them as problems to be managed is wrong.
Name What You Feel
The move with the most evidence behind it in modern emotion research — and why putting the right word to a feeling changes it.
The Body Knows First
Why your body often registers emotions before your mind does — and what it costs to ignore the body's data.
The Story You Tell Yourself
Why the same event produces different emotions in different people — and how to revise the story that's making things harder.
Your Inner Life Is a Relationship
Closing the path — what the six moves add up to, and the longer-term shift the practice produces.
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How Your Mind Actually Works
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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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