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 “Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick”. Dostoevsky…

Nostalgia for Americans In his book The Road to Character, David Brooks describes how, when George Bush (Sr.) was campaigning to be president, he would cross the I’s out of the speeches his speechwriters gave him. He grew-up in an era that stressed humility; an era where it was bad form to be vain and brag…

“If you don’t hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you’ll get.”Robertson Davies, Fifth Business Is this a sterner version of Kipling’s line? Don’t even come to the bargaining table and see what you get…. K. Wilkins is the author of: Stoic Virtues Journal: Your Guide to…

The algorithm on Youtube seems to know that I wrote a book dedicated to the psychological advice of Jordan Peterson. It seems to be oblivious to the fact that I care very little for politics. I was thus fed a clip that I would normally ignore (and really should have, lest the algorithm feed me…

“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” Epictetus Since we were on the subject of youth with Taleb’s quote…. Book smarts and life smarts: It astonishes me that my younger self sat down in hundreds of classrooms curious to learn what I did not know (well, most of…

“It’s your life – but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the…

“We all have to endure one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” Jim Rohn Will this be hard? Will I be sorry? These questions often come-up simultaneously. We can revisit Kipling’s amazing quote from another perspective. We can imagine…

“If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.” Rudyard Kipling It happens, things don’t work out like we plan. There are numerous reasons why and we know them well. However, more often than not, we simply…

The whole point of journaling is to do one thing each day that cultivates wisdom. The harvest may be years away, but the seeds must be sown now.