Tag: Classic Advice | Journal by getAbstract

Perseverance Is Its Own Reward

Earnest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea Or: You Are Not Done Until You Die

by Sara Küpfer
On New Beginnings

Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Or: It’s Never Too Late to Start Over

by Sara Küpfer
True Optimists Believe in Progress, Not Perfection

Voltaire’s Candide Or: Optimism Taken to the Extreme

by Sara Küpfer
Beware of What You’re Chasing!

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick Or: The Fatal Consequences of a Single-Minded Obsession

by Sara Küpfer
Foregoing Comfort for Adventure

Homer’s Iliad Or: On Embracing Fate and Pursuing Immortality

by Sara Küpfer
Roll off Your Couch, Roll Up Your Sleeves and Get Rolling

Albert Camus’s The Plague Or: Don’t Throw Up Your Hands, Roll Up Your Sleeves!

by Sara Küpfer
Glitz, Glamor and a Very Sad Man

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Or: How Not to Be Murdered by Your Mistress’s Husband’s Mistress’s Husband.

by Heather Hodel
Breaking Out of the Cinderella Tale

A Victorian lesson on how to take control of your own narrative.

by Heather Hodel
How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity

It is an odd comfort to know that the human species has survived plagues, pestilence, wars and sundry other disasters for as long as humankind has walked the Earth. Here are 5 lessons on how…

by Heather Hodel
Denmark Ranked Least Happy Country (in 1603)

William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet Or: Why Revenging Your Dead Father Could Damage Your Health

by Heather Hodel