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When emotions are high, it’s easy to catastrophize whatever is on the horizon and make poor decisions. By applying philosophy to our lives we can see…
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Feeling Down? You're Probably Verbing Your Nouns
When we’re feeling down, the reason is often that we’re verbing our nouns. Catastrophizing, Disasterizing, and Troublizing. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy…
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How To Make Pain Your Ally
Twenty centuries ago, the philosopher Seneca boldly claimed that anyone living a life free from pain and suffering should be pitied. Today, that bold…
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The Other Way To Bleed the Rich: Best Practices From Ancient Rome
Roman, Renaissance, and Greek ideas for getting the richest 1% to help the society they owe everything to.
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How To Rescue Yourself
“Acta, non verba,” goes the famous Roman saying. Deeds, not words. How many self-help books have you read? How many personal development gurus have you…
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How To Shift Your Perspective
And How Not To Be Unhinged by The View
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How To Carry Everything You Need
Surging floodwaters nearly killed me in 2015, and swept away almost everything I owned. In the shocked aftermath, as I gathered up the mud-smeared…
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Don’t Be a Consistent Hobgoblin
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines,” Ralph Waldo Emerson famously mused in…
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Socratic State of Mind
Socratic State of Mind
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