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How to Unself in Order to Be Who You Really Are

Nineteen Truths and One Beguiling Lie about Life from 20 Years of The Marginalian

Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian and the Search for Meaning: Free Livestream This Friday

Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being

The Map to the Route of Your Life

The Single Most Effective Remedy for Despair: Advice from T.H. White’s Merlyn

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom

Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

How to Hold Your Helplessness: Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell’s Salve for the Anxiety of Overwhelm

How Not to Waste Your Life

An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

NostradamusGPT: The Psychology of Prophecy and How to Break Free from the Prison of Predictive Technologies

Probability Theory Pioneer Mark Kac on the Unpredictability of Creativity and the Two Types of Geniuses

Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing on Breaking Free from the Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Hermann Hesse on How to Read a Book and How to Read Yourself

James Baldwin on How Love (Finally) Finds You

The Madman Who Saved Mothers: The Invention of Handwashing and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’

Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss, and How to Move Through Grief as Grief Moves Through You

How Memory Makes Us and Breaks Truth: The Rashomon Effect and the Science of How Memories Form and Falter in the Brain

How to Doubt Your Way into a Truer Life

Sleeping Beauties: David Byrne on Why Transformative Ideas Fall Dormant and How They Awaken to Change the World

Improvisation and the Quantum of Consciousness

How to Remake Yourself When You Are Undone: Lincoln and the Gift of His Suicidal Depression

Vincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Inspired Mistakes Propel Us Forward

Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth Living

Why Are We Not Better Than We Are

But We Had Music: Nick Cave Reads an Animated Poem about How to Be More Alive

A Constellation of Amazements: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Joy of Collecting Things

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

Loneliness, Resilience, and the Right Choice: Poet Diane Ackerman on What She Learned While Working at a Suicide Prevention Hotline

David Bowie on Creativity and His Advice to Artists

Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity

Mister Rogers on the Most Important Mindset for a Parent

The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear

Dostoyevsky on What Makes a Good Person

Against Brute Force: D.H. Lawrence on the Superpower of Vulnerability

The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Live in Wonder

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

Ocean of Stars: A Painted Poem About How to Bear the Astonishment of Life

The Common Language of Science: Einstein’s Clarion Call to Divided Humanity in a Rare 1941 Recording

How to Say “YES” to Life

Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death

James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing

What Happens When We Die

David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire

C.S. Lewis on How to Structure the Days of a Creative Life and Train the Receptive Imagination

Inner Space, Outer Space, and How to Be an Astronaut in the Cosmos of Connection: Eric Berne on the Key to True Intimacy

Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator

Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness