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Learning to Take Your Life Seriously

Joy arises from believing in why you're here and what you're here to do.

Heather Havrilesky
Jun 29, 2023
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Pioneers of the West (1934) by Helen Lundeberg

Taking your life seriously is a form of joy. But thanks to our culture’s distaste for self-seriousness, many of us consciously or subconsciously resist any initiative aimed at believing in ourselves and our role on the face of the earth. Current reductive discourse around online egotism, psychobabble, and th…

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