Summary: This week, Wisereads features “Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection” by John E. Sarno, highlighting its unique approach to treating chronic pain. Other highlighted articles discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on humanities, the myth of overworking, and insights on personal growth. The newsletter also includes a minimalist guide to effective weight lifting and reflections on construction productivity trends.
“No amount of peer-reviewed scholarship, no data set, can resolve the central questions that confront every human being: How to live? What to do? How to face death?… They are the work of being, not knowing—and knowing alone is utterly unequal to the task.” (View Highlight)
“The person you are today doesn’t share a single cell with the version of you from seven years ago… (View Highlight)