
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings
The One You Feed
The Wolf Parable
"I choose for myself very deliberately when I started brain picking nearly nine years ago now and also every day to to feed the celebrator rather than the critic both in myself and in my readers that's great" "We have choices in this but large existential ones by which we resolve to live our lives a certain way but also small daily ones by which We affirm that direction" 'Much of what I do deals with archival material. It's just generally easier to be a critic than than a celebrator' "'The wolf parable applies to my lifeWhich is a more a more meta way," he says, referring to his work as an author who has written books about historical figures such as
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