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Arjuna said it first: the mind is as hard to hold as the wind. Krishna's answer isn't calm. It's practice, repeated.

Muditā is gladness at someone else's good fortune, the fourth thing the comparison trap takes from you. Yoga Sūtras 1.33 lists it as one of four attitudes that clear the mind. It calls it something cultivated. It does not promise the feeling on demand. Ten seconds, one person, before you type the congratulations.

Most of the world knows Trevor Noah as the whip-smart host of The Daily Show or as a comedian who sells out arenas globally. It’s easy to assume his memoir, Born a Crime, is simply a collection of hilarious anecdotes from a charming performer. But to do so would be a profound mistake. The book is an unexpectedly deep and harrowing look into a South African childhood shaped by the absurd logic of institutionalized racism.