everything’s not lost
i have thousands of songs in my itunes and sometimes i lose track of what music is actually in my library. a recent example, “everything’s not lost” by coldplay (i know i’ve heard it before, but i...
View Articlefacing the waves of life
You never really know what’s coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity. quote by alysha...
View Articletheory of multiple intelligences
check out my favorite line from this past season of homeland: it seems contradictory, but in the case of carrie, it was so apropos. on one hand, claire danes’ character is smart enough to figure out...
View Articlesee if you can solve this math square
new brain teaser via mental floss: Place the digits 1 through 9 in the white blanks so that the mathematical equations work both across and down. Each digit 1 through 9 should appear only once in the...
View Articlethe stable marriage problem
help 8 people find a stable marriage by solving this brain teaser. details via girls’ angle & numberplay: Four single men and four single women decide they’d like to pair up into four married...
View Articletolstoy on attractive poison
The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad...
View Articlewhen shouldn’t you trust love?
for today’s brain teaser, see if you can solve this cryptogram. if you’re unfamiliar, cryptograms are messages veiled by a secret code. to crack the code, you have to think about frequencies in a...
View Articlescrabble-inspired brain teaser
since my mom had me playing scrabble at a young age, i was naturally attracted to today’s mental exercise (via the great puzzle site the master theorem). details via the puzzle’s creator: There are...
View Articlej. cole “crooked smile” f/ tlc
j. cole’s latest single is a shot of self-esteem, encouraging listeners to be happy with how god made them. the surviving members of tlc are featured on the track (which is fitting since this song...
View Articlecrossing the bridge to healing
Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive...
View Articlehow to use your alone time more productively (and actually enjoy it)
pic by david broderick written by adam dachis for lifehacker: Few people enjoy being alone, or at least feel somewhat socially rejected if they do. Nevertheless, solitude can make you more...
View Articleso let’s talk about suicide
recently, i read mary karr‘s poem “suicide’s note: an annual”, which she wrote in response to her friend david foster wallace hanging himself. i wanted to share it with you just for literary reasons....
View Article7 questions you are too scared to ask
introspection can be a scary thing sometimes. people are afraid of what they’ll find in their subconscious. other times, we know our problems (maybe even the answers) but it’s easier to not think...
View Articlealice walker on the sometimes confusing process of growth
We grow, including the intellectual and the spiritual, without being deeply aware of it. In fact, some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is...
View Articlehow to train your brain to see what others don’t
written by carolyn gregoire for huffpost: Charles Darwin had one of the greatest “aha!” moments in all of history when writing his magnum opus On The Origin of Species. After reading a book written 40...
View Articlestanley kubrick on the “most terrible fact about the universe”
The very meaninglessness of life forces a man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple...
View Articlehere’s a fresh way to look at a glass of water (and yourself)
A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead,...
View Articlethe relationship between anxiety and performance
written by scott stossel; adapted from his book my age of anxiety for hbr: I choked. It was just a middle-school tennis match against a manifestly worse player, but I became overwhelmed with anxiety....
View Article“be careful what you water your dreams with…”
“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate...
View Articlewhat’s really behind your social media posts?
Facebook can be depressing because everyone else’s lives are better than yours… But are they really? one seedy aspect of social media is when people use it to make their lives seem better (to others...
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