Painful Words About A Painful Process – Creativity | Short Reads
If I shy away from the suffering, from the struggle, then I also shy away from the essence—the truth, the ethos, the lifeblood, the...
Did School Kill Your Curiosity? | Short Reads
School should be a place where a love—or at least, a liking of—learning should be cultivated, harnessed, developed; instead, a great deal of kids,...
On ‘Being Yourself’ and ‘Following Your Passion’ (hint: don’t)
'Be yourself' and 'find your passion' are perhaps the most substandard, shabby, useless pieces of advice around. The first is anti-self-improvement—and we all have...
How To Get Started With Psychedelics
Mind-blowing in more ways than one, the subject of Psychedelics is a rich, dangerous, fascinating, controversial and very important one indeed. How does one get started with Psychedelics? The answer is education.
On Writing ‘One True Sentence’ | Short Reads
Fancy words and grammar are so often what spoils the writer; having something to say is of first importance, and saying it in the...
The Important Things In Life Get None Of The Attention
The work of the scientists, nurses, educators and philosophers will always be beaten to the spotlight by the latest phone, piece of news, fashion...
The Quality Of Your Life Hinges Upon Where You Direct Attention
Living a good—and/or successful, blissful, healthy, contented, happy—life depends on something very simple, but also as rare as it is delicate: your attention.
That which...
Facilitating Mindful Living In An Unmindful World
In an increasingly distracting, overwhelming and maddening world, the role and value of mindfulness is now unquestionable. The problem is, can mindful living be...
Comparing Yourself To Your Former-Self Is A Perilous Business — Better To Focus On...
Worrying about past success is as bad as worrying about past failures. They can generate an anxiety from the expectation to match or outperform...
Why Working For Free May Be Exactly What You Need, And Why The Concept...
Letting go of your feelings of entitlement in order to stoop down and squeeze your ego through the 'low' door that is volunteer or...
The Tallest Poppy Is The Most Vulnerable, Envied—And The Most Beautiful
On tall poppies, naysayers, and loud noises
Even if you life the perfectly virtuous, moderately successful and good life, you will still have naysayers to...
Why Your Colleagues (or you) Don’t Work Hard — The Main Cause Of Mediocre...
This piece is a takeout from my recent series of articles on the cognitive biases and other irrational tendencies. The series consists of four...
Understanding How Your Mind Works: A Layman’s Guide To The Cognitive Biases — Part...
This is the fourth and final installment of a series of articles about cognitive biases and other irrational tendencies—in other words, why and how...
Thinking About Success: 8 Directives For Making Things Happen
After an interesting conversation with a friend this morning, about the meaning of success amongst many other things, the idea birthed in my mind...
On Living The Truth
The following is a takeout from our recent essay on Heaven and Hell. In that essay was discussed three principles to live by instead...
Understanding How Your Mind Works: A Layman’s Guide To The Cognitive Biases — Part...
This is the next installment of a series of articles about the cognitive biases and other irrational tendencies—or in Layman, why and how you...
Rethinking Heaven and Hell: How to Use Religion to Create a Better World
Has the time come to drop religion once and for all? Has reason destroyed all credibility in ideas of the afterlife? Can atheism and...
How To Be Disciplined: Why Discipline Applied Only In The Name Of Striving Is...
Discipline is not so much about getting something you want, about being strong, about striving, as it is about avoiding your own dystopia, about...