Articles about fiction and non-fiction books and how they can help us live a better life.
If you ask Buddhist monks — who are known for their cultivated disposition toward good behavior — how to handle insults, they will reveal an approach that is equal parts paradoxical and profound. Whenever you’re insulted, they would say to you, steer your mind toward this wholesome thought: “There is no person insulting me but … Read more
. At this point, I can confidently say that the practice of brahmavihara meditation has made me less judgmental of other people. But it would be wrong to say that I’m completely free of this mental habit (it is part of the human condition, after all). On rare occasions when I do judge someone, I … Read more
We already know why the Socratic method is important in the age of AI. But the book of the same name claims that Socrates himself means little to many readers. They mostly associate him, its author notes, with the saying that the unexamined life is not worth living. And they know that his rational inquiries … Read more
. When I first got my hands on ChatGPT, I asked it to write in the prose style of my favorite authors, such as C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, and Ernest Hemingway. I did it because I was looking for the best way to express my own thoughts and improve as a writer. You may have … Read more