In Flourish, Martin Seligman uses Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill as examples of “severe depressives” who learned to function well even when they were massively depressed. Shouldn’t more people learn how to do this? Yes, says Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association and founder of the positive … Read More
Month: October 2018
“To live the complete human catastrophe is terrible indeed, but to write about it?”
Karl Ove Knausgaard is a Norwegian writer who conducted a public experiment. He wanted to see what would happen if he wrote honestly about his life, aiming to “penetrate that whole series of conceptions and ideas and images that hang like a sky above reality” in a six-volume novel. On … Read More
“In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask what kind of nation we are and what direction we want to move in.”
When it seems that division and anger characterize many so many conversations, it helps to look back to see how we made it through terrible times before. This week’s quote comes from a speech given by Robert F. Kennedy three hours after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Speaking… Read More