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A Little Known Tip to Reduce Anxiety, with Neil Pasricha

By Neil Pasricha — 2019

According to the American Psychological Association, almost half of all college students consider anxiety their number one concern. So many of us struggle with anxiety, and yet we don’t talk about it enough. Well, I’d like to change that. Here’s something I use to help with my own anxiety.

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May 20, 1990: Advice on Life and Creative Integrity from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson

On May 20, 1990, Bill Watterson, creator of the beloved Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, took the podium at Kenyon College — the same stage David Foster Wallace would occupy 15 years later to deliver his memorable commencement address — and gave the graduating class a gift of equally remarkable insight...

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Maria Popova and Bill Waterson
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Almost Nothing, Yet Everything: A Stunning Japanese Illustrated Poem Celebrating Water and the Wonder of Life

“If you turn your back to the blues and deny your dependence on them,” Ellen Meloy wrote in her timeless meditation on water as a portal to transcendence, “you might lose your place in the world, your actions would become small, your soul disengaged.”

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Maria Popova
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A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader

In these pages, some of today’s most wonderful culture-makers—writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers—reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character.

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Maria Popova, Claudia Bedrick
2018
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