Top Highlights

• I can’t track the flight of an invisible bug that is pestering me, I can listen to try to find it, because by listening to changes in sound—
• “So many things happened to me. I wish I’d been paying attention.”
• what I’d experienced. For years, I’d been studying human nature and reflecting on how we can build happier lives: the science of the soul. One of my most important realizations was that we can build a happy life only on the foundation of self-knowledge. The more my life reflected my own temperament, values, and interests, the happier I became, so I...
• holidays,” and “Choose the bigger life.” Despite all these efforts, over the past few years, I’d started to realize that I felt stuck in my head—disconnected from the world and other people, and also from myself.
• really looked at her at all? I’d been trying to figure out what was missing from my life, and that unforgettable walk home from the eye doctor revealed the answer: I needed to connect with my five senses.