What the oldest human writing says about the problems you're dealing with right now.
Marcus Aurelius discovered something the Hebrew poets had written about 800 years earlier.
When Marcus Aurelius wrote "You have power over your mind, not outside events", he was echoing something a Hebrew poet had already mapped in extraordinary detail — almost a millennium before.
Read article →Three thousand years before CBT, someone had already mapped the anxious mind in clinical detail.
A Hebrew poet around 1000 BCE wrote something so accurate about the experience of anxiety that modern psychotherapists have used it in clinical training. Here's what they noticed.
Read article →The most psychologically sophisticated book in the ancient world reads like a collaboration between Viktor Frankl and Albert Camus.
Written around the 3rd century BCE, Ecclesiastes is a document that starts by telling you that everything is meaningless — and ends by telling you exactly how to live anyway. It's the oldest extant text on existential coping.
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