
One Story, Two Ways
This first story is a classic Buddhist parable: One day the Buddha was resting with a group of monks in the woods. They had just

This first story is a classic Buddhist parable: One day the Buddha was resting with a group of monks in the woods. They had just

I recently had an appointment with a patient who is doing really well in his recovery. He was stuck in the mud and struggling for

I’ve written before about imposter syndrome—the feeling of not belonging even after we reach some milestone. I’ve also written about the hedonic treadmill—how quickly good things become

In physics and calculus, there’s a classic graph that plots time on the x-axis, and velocity on the y-axis. If you draw a line on

The dictionary defines curiosity as a desire to know something– technically, true. But if curiosity were only “a desire to know something,” then love would

For many people (myself included), we tend to try and organize our lives around goals. When we think about what comes next (or what we
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