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Andrew Kauffmann: Awful & Transformative... Coming Face to Face with Oneself

Make Life Less Difficult

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Are We Living in Strange Times?

Is there something uniquely, temporally strange about the world we live in now in 2023 compared to any pre-fist age or is that just hyperbole? I've been pondering this recently because I'm about to start a period as writer and resident for the Center for Mental Health in the UK. And I came across a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche, a lot of people's go-to philosopher when they want something interesting or colorful to say. He wrote: We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life. To us it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think,. haste is universal because everyone is in flight from

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