17 years ago this week Maria Popova published the first issue of Brain Pickings, a must-read digest of "how our temporal, marginal lives shimmer with meaning". Two years ago she renamed the letter the Marginalian, reborn, she said, "as what it has always been beneath the ill-fitting name chosen by a twenty-two-year-old immigrant in whose ear the tired puns and idioms of a non-native language rang fresh and full of wonder: an evolving record and ongoing celebration of my readings and my loves, of all that makes me feel most alive."
On the seventh anniversary of this delightful missive she set down some of the most important things she had learned about living in the course of writing her "personal record of reckoning with our search for meaning". Ever since she has added one new learning a year, while changing none of the previous. So this year she's up to 17.
Lesson number 15 is an elegant, two-word summary of all of the coaching she shares: "Outgrow yourself."
Article: 17 Life-Learnings from 17 Years of The Marginalian
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