《101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think》简介：

Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see your life. Some of these pieces have never been seen; others have been read by millions of people around the world. Regardless, each will leave you thinking: this idea changed my life.

《101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think》摘录：

Modern society (innovation, culture, wealth, success) is designed to convince us that a “good life” is one that is most comfortable, or able to provide us with a sense of being pain-free and secure. This is pretty directly related to the fact that human beings are hardwired to seek comfort, which translates to us as survival—we’re physiologically designed that way. It only makes sense that in our more fully actualized intellectual and emotional lives, we’d want the same.

《101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think》目录：

Introduction
Subconscious Behaviors that are Keeping You from Having The Life You Want
The Psychology of Daily Routine
10 Things Emotionally Intelligent People do not Do
How the People We Once Loved become Strangers Again
16 Signs of a Socially Intelligent Person
Uncomfortable Feelings that actually Indicate you’re on the Right Path
What the Feelings you most Suppress are trying to Tell You
the Parts of you that Aren’t “I”
20 Signs you’re doing Better than you think You Are
Breaking your “Upper Limit,” and how People Hold Themselves back from real Happiness
the Happinessof Excellence
the Knowing-Doing Gap: why we Avoid Doing What’s Best For Us, and how to Conquer Resistance For Good
101 Things more worth Thinking about than Whatever’s Consuming You
Expectations You Must let go of In Your 20s
Read This if you “Don’t Know What You’re Doing” with your Life
8 Cognitive Biases that are Creating the way You Experience Your Life
What Emotionally Strong People do not Do
10 Key Things We Misunderstand about Emotion
The Little Things you don’t realize Are Affecting how you feel About Your Body
Goals To Set that are more About Enjoying what you have Than Chasing what you don’t
102 Ways to not let Irrational Thoughts Ruin Your Life
The Inherent Zen of Creativity
Everything is here to Help You: How Intrinsically Motivated People become the Best Versions of Themselves
How To Know when the only Thing In The Way of your Happiness Is You
The Psychology of getting Unstuck and the 3 Stages Of Making Habits Autonomous
The One Question to ask yourself If You’re Tired of fighting for Someone’s Love
Be Where Your Feet Are: Mantras that will Remind You that your life Is Happening In This Moment
16 Questionsthat will show youWho You Are(and what you're meant to do)
How To Know You’ve Evolved more than you Give Yourself Credit For
Signs The Only Problem With Your Life is the way You Think About It
Do You Argue Intelligently? from Defensiveness to Rebuttal,The 7 Main Ways People Fight
Signs Your Mental Breakdown is actually An Emotional Breakthrough
How To Stop Worrying about how Your Life Looks and start Focusing On How It Feels
Why You shouldn’t Seek Comfort
The 6 Pillars Of Self-Esteem: why it is not How You Feel, but what you think You’re Capable Of
Why You Should Thank The People who have Hurt You Most In Life
Trying To Make Sense of your life Is What’s Actually Holding You Back
How To Detox Your Mind (without having to go completely off the grid)
12 Signs The Only Problem With Your Life is that you Think About It more than You Live It
Why Logical People Lead Better Lives (in a generation where “passion” is at a premium)
Things You Need to know about Yourself Before you’ll have the Life You Want
Things Emotionally Healthy People know how To Do
How To measure A Good Life
There Is A Voice That doesn’t use Words; this is how you Listen To It
Experiences we don’t have English Words For Yet
How To become your own Worst Enemy (without ever realizing it)
If We Saw Souls instead of Bodies
16 Reasons Why you still don’t Have The Love You Want
How To (actually) Change Your Life This Year
How We Lose Our Minds to other People’s Gods
How You Fall Out Of Love with the idea Of Someone
Why We Subconsciously love to create Problems For Ourselves
Why Does a soul want A Body?
The Importance Of Stillness: why it’s Imperative Tomake time to Do Nothing
Why You’re Struggling in your Relationships, based on your Attachment Style
16 Ways Suppressed Emotions are appearing In Your Life
50 People on the most Liberating thought they’ve Ever Had
You’re Only In Your 20s —It’s Not too late to Completely Start Over
17 Ideas you’re keeping About Your Life that are only Holding You Back
How To Become the kind of person who Deserves The Life You Want
Things We Expect Of Others (but rarely consider changing ourselves)
You Don't have to “Love Yourself” Perfectly in order to Be Worthy Of Someone Else's Love
30 Questions you need to Ask Yourself if you still Haven’t Found The Relationship You Want
The Most Taboo thing in our Culture Is Radical Honesty, and that’s exactly The Problem
7 Reasons Why Heartbreak Is often crucial For Human Growth
Why We Hold On Tightest to the things That Aren’t Meant For Us
Things Your 20s are too Short For
The Happier you are with A Decision, the less you Need Other People To Be, and 11 other things Truly Fulfilled People Know
What People who have Lost Love Know
Simplicity.
18 Little Reminders For Anyone who feels like They Don’t Know what they’re Doing With Their Life
The Art Of Awareness, or how to Not Completely Hate Yourself
10 Questions To Ask Yourself when you don’t know Where Your Life Should Go Next
There’s No Such Thing As Letting Go; there’s just Accepting what’s already Gone
You Are A Book of Stories, Not A Novel
Everyday Signs the world is Experiencing a shift in Consciousness
Why do we value Our Suffering So Much?
What You Find in Solitude
How To Raise A Generation Of Kids who don’t have A Problem With Anxiety
the idiot’s guide To Emotional Intelligence: Why We Need Pain
Every Relationship you have is With Yourself
15 Little Ways to deepen your Relationship With Anyone
Let Yourself Be Happier than you think You Deserve
How To Think for yourself: An 8-Step Guide
The Very Important Reason Why we choose to Love People who cannot Love Us Back
Not Everybody Will Love You in a way you Understand
How To Tame your inner Demons
Why We Reject positive Thinking
The Philosophy Of Non-Resistance: The Difference between “Going With The Flow” and becoming A Doormat
You Have To Be Kindest To Yourself when it seems Least Deserved
The 15 Most Common types of Distorted Thinking
101 Things that are more Important Than What Your BodyLooks Like
7 Zen Principles (and how to apply them to modern life)
6 Signs You have a healthy Social Sensitivity
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The Art of Mindlessness
The Difference between How You Feel and how you thinkYou Feel
The Power of negative Thinking
What You need to do To Heal Your LifeFrom Anxiety
Stop Chasing Happiness
What You should know if you're Experiencing Metanoia:a change of Mind, Heart, Self Or Way Of Life
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