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Climate Change Is Good (Even if it’s all in your head)
Read more: Climate Change Is Good (Even if it’s all in your head)happiness = perceived reality + hope
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You Might See Better With Your Eyes Closed
Read more: You Might See Better With Your Eyes ClosedIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly;what is essential is invisible to the eye.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from The Little Prince I think of this cartoon every time my neighbor’s crazy dog begins barking and runs full tilt after my car. It seems painful every single time: He reaches the end of…
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To Burn or Not to Burn, That is the Question
Read more: To Burn or Not to Burn, That is the QuestionEven if we don’t play with matches, life does. We all find ourselves on sinking ships and must learn to swim before we are ready.
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Marcus Aurelius Was A Musclehead
Read more: Marcus Aurelius Was A MuscleheadIt’s not about what’s in the way: it’s about what and who is on the other side.
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Start With Why – And With Why Not?
Read more: Start With Why – And With Why Not?It was you in the study with the lead pipe.
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Next Year, Right? If You’re Not Ready to Kill For It, You’re Not Ready Yet
Read more: Next Year, Right? If You’re Not Ready to Kill For It, You’re Not Ready Yetthe habit books all tell us that willpower won’t work. The thing is, willpower alone won’t work, but it is a necessary ingredient, the necessary ingredient.
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Understanding Youth: Lessons from Dumbledore
Read more: Understanding Youth: Lessons from Dumbledore“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” Albus Dumbledore (J.K. Rowling) As a father to two amazing teenagers, it would be convenient for me to forget the fact that I also occasionally did things that were just as dumb (meaning…
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Quote of the day: B.S. Part II – A bigger fool.
Read more: Quote of the day: B.S. Part II – A bigger fool.The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard P. Feynman, Nobel prize winning physicist “It’s not a lie if you believe it” – George Costanza In my last post I called out some bulls**t. I singled out a few famous people – one who is…
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Quote of the day: Your teenage genius
Read more: Quote of the day: Your teenage geniusI have a single definition of success: you look in the mirror every evening, and wonder if you disappoint the person you were at 18, right before the age when people start getting corrupted by life. Let him or her be the only judge; not your reputation, not your wealth, not your standing in the community,…
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Worth My Time: Who shall we fix first?
Read more: Worth My Time: Who shall we fix first?I’ve always walked away from conversations between Perel and podcast hosts with something of value. Her interview on the Huberman Lab podcast was no exception. My favorite quote speaks to the tendency to omit to see how we contribute to problems: I am a practicing couples therapist for almost 40 years, and couples often come…
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Give Yourself Permission to Be a Complete Ass
Read more: Give Yourself Permission to Be a Complete AssIt Just May Do You A World Of Good In his book Greenlights, Actor Matthew McConaughey he outlines how three words changed his life. He describes a pivotal moment, thity-odd yaers ago. He had braced himself for a hard conversation that could so sideways fast. To put the odds in his favor he strategized. His…
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Take Your Meds
Read more: Take Your MedsThe truth may set you free, butb that does not guarantee that you will fight for freedom.
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I Probably Owe You an Apology
Read more: I Probably Owe You an ApologyBecause I just my have (erroneously) thought you were lazy. Like you, I believe in my way of life. Well, most of it… There of course things that I know I could and should improve, but, if we live a certain way and do some things rather than others it is because we obviously perceive…
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Why You Should Fence Yourself In
Read more: Why You Should Fence Yourself InTo choose who we will be when we desire to be many things is as much an act of violence as it is an act of love, it requires much courage.
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Why I Hate(d) Ryan Holiday
Read more: Why I Hate(d) Ryan HolidayMy Confession of My Un-Stoic Ways It is foolish to be unhappy now because you were at some time past. RIFFINg on SENECA Dear Ryan, “I hate that guy.” That’s what I heard running through my head when yet another of my favorite podcasts, perhaps The Tim Ferriss Show, Impact Theory, or James Altucher, to…
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The Rise of Jordan Peterson and Stoicism, No Mere Coincidence -Part IV
Read more: The Rise of Jordan Peterson and Stoicism, No Mere Coincidence -Part IV“The pain of existence real. But it can be triumphed over and transcended. You can make yourself bigger than it. The cardinal virtues exist to do this.” J.Peterson
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The Rise of Jordan Peterson and Stoicism, No Mere Coincidence -Part III
Read more: The Rise of Jordan Peterson and Stoicism, No Mere Coincidence -Part III12 Rules for a Stoic Life Responsibility and response: two words that underpin the writings of the Stoics and JordanPeterson. Two words with a common root, the Latin responsum “an answer.” Each of Peterson’s twelve rules come back to two things: a) Life will be hard, how will you respond? The answer is with courage,…
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The Rise of Jordan Peterson and Stoicism: No Mere Coincidence – Part II
Read more: The Rise of Jordan Peterson and Stoicism: No Mere Coincidence – Part IIAn Antidote to the Meaning Crisis Maybe it is not that life has become that much harder, but people have become softer. After ejecting himself from his bullet-ridden aircraft moments before crashing, Fighter Pilot James Stockdale hurdled towards the ground near the main street of a small village in North Vietnam. He whispered to himself:…
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The Rise of Jordan Peterson and Stoicism: No Mere Coincidence – Part I
Read more: The Rise of Jordan Peterson and Stoicism: No Mere Coincidence – Part ISearching for meaning The divergent points of view of the existentialists and the Stoics on the nature of our suffering show that over two millennia the theory regarding the cause of the dis-ease has changed, but the medicine remains essentially the same. In an age where half the population never reads for pleasure, and fewer…
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