Anne Lamott on how we keep ourselves small by people-pleasing, Walt Whitman illustrated, the "backfire effect" of our opinions, and more

Anne Lamott on how we keep ourselves small by people-pleasing, Walt Whitman illustrated, the "backfire effect" of our opinions, and more

"What makes Anne Lamott ’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (public library) so timelessly rewarding and one of the greatest books on writing of all time is that besides her wisdom on the craft, Lamott extends enormous sensitivity to and consolation for the general pathologies of the human condition – our insecurities, our social anxieties, our inner turmoils."