Алиса Пермякова

There is a thing in life called the seven-year development cycles. You develop away for seven years, and then bang — the world around you suddenly looks different. Psychologists explain this by the development of our psyche. It is easiest to show with children. For the first six years of life their world, and the only "living" people in it, is their family. Even the other children at nursery belong more to the toy category. Great that they are there, but there is plenty to do without them.

It seems I have finally grasped the difference between self-digging and self-knowledge. Imagine that scholars have found an ancient labyrinth palace under the ground. The self-digging scholar turns up on a bulldozer and smashes the hill to bits, and whatever survives he declares to be the ancient palace. The self-knowing scholar spends more brushes, more trowels and, above all, more time, but does the palace the least possible harm, so as to show it to the world in all its beauty. A particularly prog

One of the most interesting things about people is their notions of love. Everyone describes love in their own way, and then looks for whatever fits that particular description. Ira, a striking, sexy, provocative blonde in designer outfits, with real diamonds in her ears, groomed and forever dissatisfied with something, thought of love as a kind of emotional rollercoaster. From love to hatred was a flutter and a half of her very long lashes away; her latest iPhone trilled in every messenger and social ne

The older we get, the more baggage of failures we accumulate. It also goes by the name of "life experience". It is what helps idealists who understand nothing about the world, or perhaps about themselves, to classify every event more confidently, to make decisions and to act under uncertainty. That same baggage, however, sometimes slows us down very noticeably.