Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Flow and Wider Community

I cannot stress enough the importance of finding your flow. Once you do, almost every other activity will fade in comparison. You’ll have access to a constant source of enjoyment that gives meaning to everything you do. But it doesn’t have to stop there. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (September 29, 1934–October 20, 2021), the author of “Flow: … Read more

The Sixth Stage of Grief: Finding Meaning

In 1969, Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified the five stages of dying in her groundbreaking book On Death and Dying. Three decades later, in her final book On Grief and Grieving, co-authored with her friend David Kessler and published posthumously, Kubler-Ross adapted the stages she had observed in the dying to account for the similar … Read more

Aristotle on Virtues as Habits

“I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living,” wrote E. B. White to his brother Stanley White while reflecting on the art of living through writing. “Was the only kind of creative work which … Read more

The Second Self: Sherry Turkle on The Human Spirit in a Computer Culture

“Technology catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think. It changes people’s awareness of themselves, of one another, of their relationship with the world,” writes Sherry Turkle in her book The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. “The new machine that stands behind the flashing digital signal, unlike the … Read more