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Better Days

Neal Allen

Notes on taming the inner critic and more

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Back in the Middle Ages when I was in grad school, I took a class with Herbert Deane, who at the lectern seemed to fade away as a disheveled, dyspeptic reader of yellowing lecture notes, his suits worn out, his voice gravelly. It didn’t hel...

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Pardon me, but ...

Last Sunday I tried to run a marathon. I’m old and with first an Achilles tendon setback and then a hip bursitis waylaying, I trained barely the minimum. A couple of days beforehand, Annie asked my chances to finish, and I said, “50-50 mayb...

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SHACKLED TO THE PAST

This is exactly what my first car looked like. Pretty cool, hunh? Loved the nose.

I don’t usually write about automobiles.

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GET TO KNOW YOUR INNER CRITIC

Most people think their inner critic is a necessary nuisance. But you outgrew its messages by the time you were 17. It’s a terrible motivator, an imaginary idiot, and it curates all your conflicts and anxieties. All of them. After ten years...

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