9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings
Reflections on the rewards of seeking out what magnifies your spirit.
BY MARIA POPOVA
On October 23, 2006, Brain Pickings was born as an email to my seven colleagues at one of the four jobs I held while paying my way through college. Over the years that followed, the short weekly email became a tiny website updated every Friday, which became a tiny daily publication, which slowly grew, until this homegrown labor of love somehow ended up in the Library of Congress digital archive of “materials of historical importance” and the seven original recipients somehow became several million readers. How and why this happened continues to mystify and humble me as I go on… READ ARTICLE
A New and Sweeping Utopia of Life: Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
An ennobled vision for a world “where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible.”
Ben Hecht on Greatness, the Radiance of Realness, and the Rewards of Keeping in Touch with the Soul of Your Childhood
On the crucial difference between superficial success and true greatness.
Kafka on Love and Patience
“Patience is the master key to every situation. One must have sympathy for everything, surrender to everything, but at the same time remain patient and forbearing.”
The Art of Not-Having-to-Ask, from Buddhist Monks to Amanda Palmer by Way of Thoreau
How to unlearn everything our transactionalist culture has taught us about “the market” and relearn our natural open-handed generosity.
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