Life IS urgent. Contemplate death and appreciate the impermanence of life. Make the most of it. But there is a fine line between urgency and hurry. In a state of hurry, you're only doing. A day of getting everything done on your to-do list…
Children Imperfectionist Books
Rosie Revere, Engineer, a Children’s Book with a Beautiful Message on Perseverance and Failure
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty may look like a children's book, but it includes an important lesson for adults as well.…
The answers to most questions are at the tips of our fingers. The digital encyclopedia we carry in our pockets is a gift. Almost everything we want to know is a Google search away.
But we often avoid asking the bigger questions because they are…
I met Julie-Anne Graham through Twitter and discovered her beautifully illustrated children's book The Perfect Percival Priggs.
Percival Priggs is a perfect child with seemingly perfect parents. Percival and his parents win lots of awards and always try to compete for more. Percival believes his parents…
At The Imperfectionist Book Club, we’re reading Mindfulness in Plain English. Join us here. What we’re watching: Adam Grant’s TED Talk, “Are You a Giver or a Taker,” on the benefits of promoting a culture of successful givers. The talk is based on Adam’s…
We spent much of 2016 taking in content over pushing out content, so we’re excited about what we have planned for 2017: Daily bytes of wisdom from our favorite philosophers, writers, historical figures, artists, and more which you can get from Tumblr, Instagram, and…
During the last two years of his life, Oliver Sacks, called the “Poet Laureate of Medicine,” wrote a series of essays on life, aging, and mortality for The New York Times. These four essays were posthumously published in his book Gratitude, a quick but incredibly touching collection that remains with…
