Founded in 2010, Thought Catalog is owned and operated by The Thought & Expression Company, Inc. For over a decade, we've been at the bleeding edge of media, pioneering an infrastructure for creatives to flourish both artistically and financially. Quite a lot of questions to think about. But I think some of my friends figured out the answers for them. Me? I am still thinking. Everything you do, see, and feel is a reflection of not who you are, but how you are. You create what you believe. You see what you want. You’ll have what you give.” it is awful. Simply a series of lists with next to no context and what feels like sustained criticism for however you live your life - whoever you are. That's possibly unfair, but that's how it felt. And the concentration required to get anything from the messages - exhausting. self-sufficiency is just a precursor to happiness. It is the foundation. It is crucial, but it is not the connectedness on which human beings thrive."

I couldn't make it half way through. Not because of the overwhelming sense of naivety I felt the writer had about the real world, and how each person is different, but that I'd say from 2-28 I had no answer for myself. The content didn't feel tight and most of the time all over the place, I felt like it wasn't getting to a point that probably didn't even exist Flow” (in case you don’t know—you probably do) is essentially what happens when we become so completely engaged with what we’re doing.Before we move on, let us stop for a moment and say a few words about the author herself. 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think was written by a young American writer and poet Brianna Wiest. Currently, Brianna is 28 years old. But, at the time when she published the book we are about to analyze, she was only 24. Among other things, Brianna also touches such deep and all-encompassing topics as Zen Buddhism principles and their effect on our lives. She highlights the importance of being enlightened and following those principles to finally conquer your subconscious resistance for good things in your life and start feeling happy. Make a list of all the imperfect people you’ve known in your life who have had love. Who have had romantic partners and best friends and jobs you could only ever dream of. Make a list of all the people who are conventionally unattractive and spiritually adrift and imperfect and all the things each one of them had despite being that way. Make it your own personal proof that you do not need to be perfect to be good enough.” Self-help books and I have a strange relationship. I didn't pay detailed attention to this book except for while I was reading I kept saying Oh ok, yea I see, that is me, I definitely need to incorporate this list into my daily habit.

I do think people will find value with this - especially if you're looking for a no-frills, give me tips to me straight type of person.There are two mindsets people tend to have: explorer or settler. Our society has a “settler” mindset, our end goals are “finalizing” (home, marriage, career, etc.) in a world that was made for evolution, in selves that do nothing but grow and expand and change. People with “explorer” mindsets are able to actually enjoy what they have and experience it fully because they are inherently unattached” It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening. In 101 Essays that Will Change the Way You Think PDF, Brianna Wiest, renowned author and thinker, presents a treasure trove of captivating ideas, including:

I don't know how to review non-fictions so I'm just going to say things I liked and didn't like in bullet points

Happiness is not how many things you do, but how well you do them. More is not better. Happiness is not experiencing something else; it’s continually experiencing what you already have in new and different ways.” As previously mentioned, 101 ESSAYS that will CHANGE the way YOU THINK by Brianna Wiest is a compilation of her previously published philosophical essays. It's about: the importance of slowing down and being in the moment; fear and stepping into the unknown; happiness, passion, and purpose; identity; having choices; suffering and letting go; courage and hope. What I got from listening to this book? Invaluable insights to apply to my every day, helping me be more aware, purposeful, and happy. What else could I ask for?

In this superb work of self-help and knowledge, Brianna West indeed points out in a very short and direct way how oft seemingly misunderstood and not always thought about things that we engage in daily profoundly goes on to shape the essence of the 'who' we're striving to become, be it for better or worse. "In a sense, the notion that thoughts create reality is more than just a nice idea; it’s also a fact of evolution. It was because of language and thought that we could create a world within our minds, and ultimately, it is because of language and thought that we have evolved into the society we have today—for better and for worse."In Jordan Peterson's lectures on the Biblical Series, he explains how the concept about the fundamental and innate evolutionary ability of humanity since antiquity to first of all tell stories that transform into legends and so on to eventually become myth to which religions undeniably share those self same myths, ideas and mythos from time immemorial. While Joseph Campbell also talks about the intersection of mythology and evolution in his book The Power of Myth; that it is at the point of the development of the pre-frontal cortex that then made the modern man from an oral story telling species to one in which the abstract thoughts about a certain yet to arrive future is easily conceived intellectually. This evolutionary advanage can then be confronted wherein the best possible steps are taken to ensure further successful propagation of the species. Look, I understand the appeal of compiling 101 Essays: it's good marketing, it's great marketing even, but I'm gonna need you to stop. These are not essays, these are lists and blog posts that I could easily find in any celebrity blog—Gwyneth Paltrow and Kourtney Kardashian are giving us the same food for thought for free. Also, side note - I'm not sure if it was my edition or WHAT but the formatting was insane for a lot of essay titles. "HOW TO KNOW YOU’VE EVOLVED more than you GIVE YOURSELF CREDIT FOR IT’S HARD TO SEE HOW FAR ALONG THE PATH YOU’VE COME WHILE YOU’RE SO FOCUSED ON TAKING EACH STEP—SO TO SAY. YOU’VE PROBABLY HAD THE EXPERIENCE OF A THIRD PARTY COMMENTINOne more big topic that can be traced throughout the whole piece is the importance of now. The author emphasizes that the current moment is basically everything we have. Throughout her career, Brianna has been featured in different famous resources, including the Huffington Post, Thought Catalog multiple times. She was also a contributor to Forbes. You can find lots of her publications on these and other platforms. I was expecting more like 101 collated essays / articles across disciplines that really are life changing or insightful. This is my own fault for not really reading the synopsis. I think the term happiness seems to default to the happiness of pleasure. Only a few experience - the Happiness of excellence.