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Brain Food #850: Saying no as a means of saying yes
We are like the seasons
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Brain Food #849: The dualities in us
There is nothing good or bad
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Brain Food #848: Making up for what isn't there
What we do when the meaning is not immediately obvious
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Brain Food #617: That feeling of being last
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Brain Food #391: Is falling in love an art or a science?
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Brain Food #825: Doing something you are not good at
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Brain Food #841: The impossibility of wanting
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Brain Food #844: The invisible bags
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Brain Food #641: The Tail End
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Brain Food #847: The desires and denials that lie in what tends to be repeated
The motifs we can, and cannot, see
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Brain Food #846: Patterns of meaning
Behind the cotton wool
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Brain Food #845: You can only create what you are meant to create
Free will and the act of creation
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Brain Food #844: The invisible bags
On seeing shadows
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Brain Food #843: Going in circles
Reflections on progress
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Brain Food #842: How things should be
What the length of a book can teach us about norms
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Brain Food #841: The impossibility of wanting
Mimetic desire and wanting the want
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Brain Food
Brain Food
A short exploration of a handpicked concept or idea, for people with little time who want to live and think better.
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