In the wonderful movie It’s Kind of a Funny Story, based on the autobiographical book by Ned Vizzini, the adolescent main character Craig winds up as a patient in an adult wing of a psychiatry unit in a New York City hospital. As he’s being oriented to the unit, a patient walks by and yells, […]
problem solving, think, thinking
I read an article recently by an author who was writing about the struggle of trying to quit things that she knew she should no longer be involved with, and although she was really talking about different parts of life, like relationships and work, her article seemed to focus on how difficult it can be […]
job, leaving a job, quitting, thinking
Viktor Frankl’s powerful book Man’s Search for Meaning is a gem. (He nearly published anonymously, until someone convinced him otherwise.) It has profoundly impacted my outlook on life. Frankl was a psychiatrist and Nazi concentration camp survivor who lost everything that he had including family and his wife. Based on his experiences in the camps, […]
influential, power, thinking