Summary: This week, Wisereads features insights from Dr. Ali Binazir’s “The 5 Hidden Love Questions” and highlights Maria Popova’s life lessons. It also includes reflections from Bill Watterson on creativity and Paul Graham’s thoughts on the future of writing in the age of AI. Additionally, there’s a look at McKinsey’s report on industries that could reshape the global economy by 2040.
Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for ‘negative capability,’ (View Highlight)
Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky. Choose it at first consciously, effortfully, pressing against the weight of a world heavy with reasons for sorrow, restless with need for action (View Highlight)
writing is thinking. In fact there’s a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing (View Highlight)
People don’t have existential peace because they’ve figured out the meaning of life. They have existential peace because that’s their nature or because they’ve developed happy lives and healthy thought patterns that don’t lead to them spending their time moping around. Feeling like you understand the meaning of life is downstream of existential peace, not upstream (View Highlight)