Read the Thinkers Who Came Before You

The questions keeping you up at night — about meaning, mortality, love, justice — are not new. People have been wrestling with them for thousands of years, and some of them wrote down what they found. You do not have to figure everything out alone.

Read the Stoics. Read the existentialists. Read the poets, the mystics, the psychologists who mapped the inner landscape before you. You will not agree with all of them, but you will feel less alone in your searching. And occasionally, a sentence written centuries ago will crack something open inside you.