
Exploring the Self
Tue, Nov 17
|Birch Tree Books and Plants
Join your host, Cynthia, to explore topics on "the self" through literature!


Time & Location
Nov 17, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Birch Tree Books and Plants, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Life isn’t linear, and yet we constantly try to mold it around linear goals: four-year college degrees, ten-year career plans, thirty-year mortgages. What if instead we approached life as a giant playground for experimentation? Based on ancestral philosophy and the latest scientific research, Tiny Experiments provides a desperately needed reframing: Uncertainty can be a state of expanded possibility and a space for metamorphosis.
Neuroscientist and entrepreneur Anne-Laure Le Cunff reveals that all you need is an experimental mindset to turn challenges into self-discovery and doubt into opportunity. Readers will replace the old linear model of success with a circular model of growth in which goals are discovered, pursued, and adapted—not in a vacuum, but in conversation with the larger world.
Throughout the book, you will ask hard questions and design simple yet meaningful experiments to find the answers. You will learn how to break free from the…
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