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Category Archives: The Search for the Higher Path

  1. Practicing Parrhesia: Fearless Speech for Agreeable Overthinkers

    December 4th, 2019 by Jessie Mannisto | Courage, Doing the Thing, Issue 13.5: Bonus Articles, The Life of the Mind, The Search for the Higher Path |

    Socrates and the Buddha have some suggestions for you highly agreeable types who can’t quite bring yourself to speak up about something important.

  2. A Winding Path to Artisanship An Interview with Pierre Miller of the Desiderata Pen Company

    September 11th, 2019 by Jessie Mannisto | Doing the Thing, Issue 8: Growth Through Self-Understanding, The Life of the Mind, The Search for the Higher Path |

    “Starting your own business is a lot of work. It should come as no surprise that ‘entrepreneurship’ is such a long word.” So says Pierre Miller, founder of the Desiderata Pen Company. In this interview, he shares the winding path that led him from his STEM degree to becoming an artisan and a small business owner, and how it required continual work at reintegration.

  3. Transformative Life Experiences Through the Decision-Making Process

    March 6th, 2019 by Krystyna C. Laycraft | Issue 6: Ways Forward, Positive Disintegration, The Search for the Higher Path |

    Emotion fuels our decisions; our decisions, in turn, mark the points in our lives that put us on the higher path. So argues Krystyna Laycraft as she reflects on her own inner psychic transformation while deciding to return to Poland after the fall of Communism.

  4. There and Half-Way Back Again: How Openness Guided My Journey through Politics

    January 19th, 2019 by Andrea Lynn Lewis | Finding Your Tribe, Issue 5: Connecting to Dabrowski's Theory, The Search for the Higher Path |

    How does openness to experience affect a person’s political stance? For Andrea, it’s caused her views to continuously evolve—as has her view on disagreement itself.

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