Short, honest notes from Dr Alten du Plessis — on the arts, the science, and the life they quietly furnish.
I write these the way I’d talk to you over coffee after a lecture: unhurried, honest, and more interested in what’s true than in what sells. — Alten
I have spent a working lifetime in the science of wellbeing, and somewhere along the way I quietly assumed the arts were for other people. This is the story of noticing that mistake — and of deciding to fix it in public.
More reflections will gather here as the house fills.