When we get ourselves into situations where we are unhappy and we need things to improve, there are three places we can live: in our beliefs, in our thoughts, or in our actions. I almost always live in my thoughts. I can often figure things out, given enough time, so...
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Admit it. You are wrong.
When I was in middle school, I showed up to class one day without doing my homework. I rarely did homework because I just couldn’t be bothered to do it, and if a teacher didn’t regularly check, I didn’t see any point in doing it. However, this one day, a...
Continue reading...Self-Pity is the Enemy of Integrity
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.
Continue reading...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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