HeyJaredThis Examined Life
Writer, speaker, and host of The Examined Life podcast, exploring attention, purpose, and the questions shaping what we notice, and what we miss.
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Are we too easily pleased? (opens the original)
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On becoming an adult (opens the original)
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For the last while I’ve been wanting to pull together some reflections from the series of conversations on death and loss. Partly so the series has some kind of ending to it, and partly because it forces the need to think through some of the insights that have come out of the conversations. I have finally done something like that, below is a brief post about it.I don’t think I’ve often been accused of being mature and grounded, in fact quite the opposite. I have a classic case of what psychologi
That second type of fun (opens the original)
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If you’re anything like me, in times of stress you fantasise about frictionless holidays. The idea of putting your full weight onto a sun lounger and sinking into a good book is a dream. While there’s a place for such holidays1, I’m not convinced that zero-friction holidays are always the tonic we need. In what follows, I channel my inner Presbyterian and make the case for choosing discomfort and hardship over ease and convenience.The photos below are from a recent expedition to N
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