Self-pity makes us live beyond our values, which makes it difficult for us to live with integrity, and therefore impossible to gain peace and serenity.
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Recommended Reading: This is Water
This is a slightly long, but very stimulating read. You can also listen to the original audio. It is David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College in 2005, and I think it contains a great many elements of capital-T truth.
Continue reading...Using Values (and Google) to Inform Decision-Making
I am often faced with decisions about whether or not to take on a new challenge. I have been struggling with this kind of decision over the past week. There is an opportunity that has presented itself to me, and I am trying to decide whether or not to get involved.
Continue reading...Why can’t we all just get along? Thoughts on the Effects of Underlying Relative Value Statements in Arguments
The latest argument pitting “Democrats” against “Republicans” is about children being separated from their parents. I put Democrat and Republican in quotes because almost no one who argues about stuff like this is an actual member of either of these parties. And I really dislike the idea that all of...
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