I just finished listening to Alex Epstein’s podcast, The Human Flourishing Project: 6 kinds of focus. In it, he outlines a framework for focusing on various areas of your life to improve your overall productivity and life enjoyment. The six areas are 1) focusing on a high-value and meaningful market, […]
According to mental health experts, flourishing “…is a state where people experience positive emotions, positive psychological functioning and positive social functioning, most of the time. In more philosophical terms this means access to the pleasant life, the engaged or good life and the meaningful life.” This idea of flourishing pervades […]
Scientist Ray Cronise fasted for 22 days. No food, just water. Yet, when you watch this interview below with him, he doesn’t look starved. He seems cognoscente, capable, and according to the interview, feeling great. How is this possible? Why should you care? The feeling of hunger Up until recently, […]
As unemployment races to highs never seen since the great depression, many workers are struggling to find a way to rejoin the work force. Are you one of them? How can you survive and perhaps thrive in such an environment? The COVID pandemic does not make it easy. Here are […]
Can an either/or choice ever be wrong? Yes! When the choice is not truly either/or but we pretend it is. When done, we create a fallacy called a “false alternative”. This fallacy can destroy public debate and lead to all kinds of problems if moral commandments are involved. False Alternatives […]
First detected in December 2019, almost 4000 people have died from the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 (as of March 12, 2020). While it started in China, it is currently hitting South Korea, Italy, and Iran hard. Spain, France, Germany, and the US all have over 1000 reported cases, cases doubling rough […]
Much of our life is managed by automation. Not of the computer variety, but of the behavioral variety. Automation of our behavior through habits. We need habits to simplify our life, to take everyday things that we do, and eliminate the cognitive effort it takes to do them. This frees […]
