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Being able to frame the problems we face as sentient beings in an often hostile world has been a key ingredient in human evolution, and may still be the most important ability we have today.
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Something as simple as a bakery string tied around the wrist can be the most romantic gesture just as easily as a trip to Ikea can induce someone to consider driving both parties into the East River. Authors and podcast hosts Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink describe both in this ten-year-long love story told from alternating perspectives.
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We are all figuring things out as we go along to some extent, and that is a good thing. The more we realize this and embrace it, the easier it is to develop a creative process that leads to small wins and the ability to build on one toward the next to make big change.
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Striving for comfort in a culture that encourages him to push himself to exhaustion, Goodbye, Again is a place for Jonny Sun and us readers to process the world.
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Michele Wucker's new book on risk ranges from how it defines our personal identity to international policy and diplomacy. Beyond understanding risk on a personal, an academic, and even a geopolitical level, what I think readers will be left with is a better understanding of the topic that Wucker ultimately uncovers—reality.
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