Visit your dentist twice a year. Sleep eight hours in an unbroken block. Floss every night. These instructions arrive wrapped in the authority of science, the reassurance of consensus, the patina of timelessness. They feel like facts discovered rather than decisions made – as though someone in a laboratory, bent over instruments, unearthed them from…
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Last September, eating a peach with chocolate peanut butter ice cream in my kitchen a little after midnight, I realized I was happy. Not in the way you realize you’ve forgotten your keys – more the way you notice your breathing only after it’s slowed. Nothing special about the combination – cold peach from the…
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The most profound changes seem to require us to pull away from the very people who could support us through them. Counterintuitive, even cruel – yet this pattern appears everywhere we look – in nature, in personal growth, in creative breakthroughs. The more I’ve explored this paradox, the more I’ve come to see it not…
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Visualize: You’re in a dream, seated in an ornate concert hall with burgundy velvet seats and golden baroque molding that seems to breathe with the music. A stranger approaches, apologetic – you’re in their seat. You stand, move aside, and exchange a brief glance of mutual acknowledgment. The moment passes. You wake. Somewhere else, maybe…
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