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The Edit: Lost and Found
The Edit

The Edit: Lost and Found

Our weekly round up of the best articles, podcasts and videos focusing on purpose in life, work and the world.

2 minute read

14th Feb 2025

Why bad emotions are a necessary part of being human, a couples therapist talks love and more in #TheEdit.

  • Your childhood home might never stop haunting you. It’s a weird, anticipatory grief, but it’s not unfounded. It can be weird when old and new selves collide – The Atlantic
  • Clinical psychologist Orna Guralnik talks love and taste. ‘Love your partner for who they are, not who you want them to be’ – Financial Times
  • A new perspective on negative emotions. Anger, envy, anxiety; people have tried extreme methods to manage dark emotions, but modern science shows that these emotions are natural and necessary parts of being human – Big Think
  • Lost and found. ‘Nothing New’ is a newly discovered poem by Robert Frost – New Yorker
  • Episode 1: A fight. Tom Rosenthal approaches a random stranger in a park in London and asks if he can sit down next to them and record their conversation – Strangers on a Bench Podcast
  • What comes after DEI. We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine work; this is how we succeed where DEI has failed – Harvard Business Review
  • Masters of love. Science says lasting relationships come down to, you guessed it, kindness and generosity – The Beautiful Truth

“Love is the most powerful force in the universe. It’s what, in a way, makes a plant burst out of the ground and turn into a tree. It’s the thing that makes life.”

Orna Guralnik