Digest — 2026-01-29:

Is inherited wealth bad?

Inside, the valley sings

how to trust yourself

Changing negative narratives

Sean McCoy at the Western Gate

How to instantly change all text on your website to be lowercase

7 must-read books for mastering essential life skills

From self-erasure to self-mastery: Ethan Suplee’s second act

How training your gaze could help you master sports — and your own attention

Mastering the edge: How success raises the stakes for elite adventurers

Memorizing London’s 25,000 streets changes cabbies’ brains — and may prevent Alzheimer’s

How a small shop in Kyoto connects mastery with meditation

The systems that build star performers

How a Japanese philosophy helped me improve my life

The last masters: The international effort to preserve an ancient craft

The Pursuit of Mastery

What Counts As A Mind?

The Mystery of Personal Identity: What Makes You and Your Childhood Self the Same Person Despite a Lifetime of Change

Love Anyway

Michael Faraday on Mental Discipline and How to Cure Our Propensity for Self-Deception

How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent on Breaking the Trance of Near-living

A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season

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