The Books Briefing: On Self-Progress

While resolutions are notorious for being abandoned not far into the new calendar year, really any time of year is a good time to refine the way you inhabit the world.

When going through her midlife crisis at age 50,the writer Alison Gopnik said the philosopher David Hume’s which argues that the beauty of life is the experience of living itself, without concern, John Kaag explores the prescriptive writings from the famous philosopher, interspersing that commentary with first-person accounts to show how Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas influenced Kaag’s day-to-day life.