staying sane
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How to stay sane. Part 2 – coping with rejection
Peter Kenny
Frankly I’m not feeling man enough this morning to find exactly where in the interminable Being and Nothingness Jean-Paul Sartre starts talking about waiters, but when he does things get interesting and surprisingly practical. Picture yourself smoking cigarettes in a Parisian cafe, sitting opposite Sartre. Looking at a miserable, surly waiter Sartre observes that the…
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How to stay sane. Part 1 – working
Peter Kenny
As a freelance writer, I find one of the most terrifying scenes in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is where we finally see what Jack Nicholson has been typing in a frenzy for the last weeks. His entire manuscript is made up of the repeated sentence ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’.…