A batch of the best highlights from what Todd's read, .
ask yourself why that matters to you. When you get that answer, ask yourself why again. Keep asking until you want to say, “I don’t know why—that’s just who I am!”
The Map
Keith M. Eigel, PhD
The more ways your identity can be threatened by casual daily interactions, the more valuable it will be to cultivate the Stoic (and Buddhist, and CBT) ability to not be emotionally reactive, to not let others control your mind and your cortisol levels.
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
During the periods when an individual does not breathe, the lack of oxygen causes a loss of energy (ATP) in the cells that, in turn, stimulates production of uric acid. As a consequence, some patients with sleep apnea may present with gout as their earliest symptom before they realize there is a sleep disturbance present.