How to Think Like a Medieval Monk
Self-help for your mind from centuries ago
7 min readDec 6, 2018
By Julia Bourke
They may have been founded in 1098, but the Cistercian order in France still managed to anticipate one of the most exciting discoveries of modern science. Known as the “white monks” because of their habits of undyed sheep’s wool, the Cistercians envisaged religious life as a process of…