After someone's death, how strange to see the value drain away from his or her possessions; useful objects such as clothes, or dish towels, or personal papers become little more than trash.
The first and most important habits question is: How does a person respond to an expectation? When we try to form a new habit, we set an expectation for ourselves. Therefore, it’s crucial to understan...
Of the Four Tendencies, Obligers struggle most often against the temptations of loopholes. Rebels don’t make excuses to justify doing what they want; Upholders and Questioners feel a greater pressure...
Lack of Control Loophole: Weirdly, we often have an illusion of control over things we can’t control—If I spend a lot of time worrying, the plane is less likely to crash, If I play my lucky numbers, I...
In particular, I’d realized that although I possessed all the elements of a happy life, too often I took my circumstances for granted and allowed myself to become overly vexed by petty annoyances or f...
I didn’t want to be like the novelist who spent so much time rewriting his first sentence that he never wrote his second.
Hors d’oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me.… They remind me of one’s childhood that one goes through, wondering what the next course is going to be like—and during the rest of the menu one...