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Welcome To The Mind Club

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From dogs to gods, dive into the science of mysterious minds–including your own.
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Nothing seems more real than the minds of other people. When you consider what your boss is thinking or whether your spouse is happy, you are admitting them into The Mind Club.

MINDLESS ZOMBIES

Nothing seems more real than the minds of others. Every day, you consider what your boss might be thinking, whether your spouse is happy, and what that shady crew of teenagers wants. The apparent reality of other minds...

Wisdom From Great Writers On Every Year Of Life

An extraordinary literary journey, 100 Years celebrates every age from birth to 1[image error]00 with quotations from the world’s greatest writers. Watch the video below.[image error]

I’m turning 44 next month, and I have the sense that 44 is going to be a very good year, a year of fulfillment, realization. I have that sense, not because of anything particular in store for me, but because I read it would be a good year in a 1968 book by Norman Mailer.

“He felt his own age, forty-four …” wrote Mailer in The Armies of...

A Man Is Known By The Company He Avoids

In How To Love, Dr. Gordon Livingston—a physician of the human[image error] heart, a philosopher of human psychology—offers an urgently needed meditation on who best (and who best not) to love

FIRST DESERVE, THE DESIRE [image error]

The choices we make, choices on which our happiness largely depends, involves judgments about the people we encounter as we travel through life.

Who can we trust? Who will bring out the best in us? Who will betray us? Who will save us from ourselves?

To be in the presence of another perso...

LinkFest ~ Best Reads On Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: The Only Way To Finish

WRITING

Getting To The End: How To Finish A Book | WRITER UNBOXED

W[image error]ith each book, I reached a point where I was convinced that a) I would never finish; b) that finishing the book was truly impossible; and c) that the fact that anyone in the history of the world had ever finished writing a novel was a wonder up there with the hanging gardens of Babylon and the Taj Mahal (and that took 20+ years to complete). But I finished every book anyway. Here are a few of the tricks that helped me get...

Your Thoughts Are Bubbles Waiting To Be Popped

Thoughts are the vehicles of emotion. If we’re experiencing a positive o[image error]r a negative emotion, there tends to be a thought that that emotion is attached to. And while we talk of having self-control over how our feelings are expressed, the way thoughts arise in our consciousness make this challenging.[image error]

Thoughts are like the weather of the mind, says Jon Kabat-Zinn, Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and author of Wherever you go, there you are. Some...

Love Is Within Every Human Being

Sex matters to us all. The Osho approach to sex begins with an understanding[image error] of how important love is in our lives, while at the same time acknowledges that the journey into love cannot exclude our innate biological energies. With this perspective, it becomes clear that the tendency for religions, and for society in general, to associate sex with sin and morality has been a great misfortune.

WHAT IS LOVE?

To live it and know it is very easy, but to put it in words is difficult. It is like a...

What Nice Men Don’t Say To Nice Women

Dr. Robert Glover, author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, has dubbed the “Nice Gu [image error] y Syndrome” trying too hard to please others while neglecting one’s own needs, thus causing unhappiness and resentfulness. It’s no wonder that unfulfilled Nice Guys lash out in frustration at their loved ones.

A lot isn’t expressed between couples because of a fear of not seeming very ‘nice’. That’s deeply unfortunate, and stores up a lot of trouble. We’d be better off daring to be a little more honest. Watch the...

Stop Pretending And Begin To See The Miracle Of Your Life

When John O’Leary was nine years old, he was almost killed in a devasta[image error]ting house fire. With burns on one hundred percent of his body, O’Leary mustered an almost unimaginable amount of inner strength just to survive the ordeal. The insights he gained through this experience and the heroes who stepped into his life to help him through the journey—his family, the medical staff, and total strangers—changed his life. Now he is committed to living life to the fullest and inspiring others to do th...

A New Definition of Entrepreneurship

Defining success, learning how to achieve it and feeling satisfied with the re[image error]sults—all in a world where nothing ever seems to be enough.For more than 40 years, Howard Stevenson has been a towering figure at Harvard Business School: the man who literally defined entrepreneurship and taught thousands of the world’s most successful professionals.[image error]

Entrepreneurship is often thought of as starting a new business or creating innovation. But in reality entrepreneurship, in our view, is the pursuit...

How Do We Help Our Hearts To Grow?

In How to Love, Thich Nhat Hanh distills one of our strongest em[image error]otions down to four essentials: you can only love another when you feel true love for yourself; love is understanding; understanding brings compassion; deep listening and loving speech are key ways of showing our love.

FEEDING OUR LOVE [image error]

Each of us can learn the art of nourishing happiness and love. Everything needs food to live, and love. If we don’t know how to nourish our love, it withers. When we feed and support our own happ...