FourthEye

Category: philosophy

  • The Myth Of Discipline Revisited

    Misappropriated discipline is the enemy of creativity. If we accept that success is being consistently good over a long period of time, how we produce quality consistently is the pressing question. Discipline is but one part of the toolkit for creating a life well lived, but like the old hammer and nail story it gets…

  • The Pursuit Of Purpose

    An Alternative Way Of Viewing Our Void For Transcendence After a contentious conversation with a friend over the role of religion in human life, I thought I might share some of my perhaps unorthodox perspective on meaning. Treating purpose as though it is a problem to be solved, or even a well-defined inquiry is perpetually…

  • On Limiting Personal Stories

    Hello everyone, hope this article finds you doing well. Firstly, big shoutout to all of the new follows and people that have been showing support, I really appreciate ya. I’d like to ask you all, to leave some comments or feedback somewhere of the type of content that you’ve found most valuable and perhaps what…

  • Retirement Revisited

    Despite my young age, retirement has long been a fascination of mine. Perhaps this makes sense given my interest in many topics generally associated with older demographics, but even since my elementary school days I’ve been thinking about the myth of retirement. Of course by “myth” in this context I don’t mean that retirement isn’t…

  • Distractions From The Main Plot

    It always feels like such an odd exercise to diminish the importance or usefulness of certain conversations or topics, and yet to the end of effective resource management such a task seems necessary. In this short piece, my hope is to illuminate some of how I think about choosing topics and also cover issues that…

  • My Take On Plan B’s

    Something that comes up a tremendous amount, is the topic of what we actually do if “it doesn’t work out.” Being that this question is pretty important for those that try to run their own shows, this has been something that I’ve put a lot of resources into thinking about. In part because at some…

  • On Distancing Self-Evaluation From External Social Reference

    Overlapping somewhat with the theme of the last piece, I’ve decided to talk about why I think using other people as reference material to rank ourselves might be misguided. To start off, I want to get into common scenarios such as privilege assessment as a way of solving for gratitude, or using celebrities, peers or…

  • Unresolvable Philosophical Differences

    This piece is on a topic that has a really high degree of relevance to one of the bigger roadblocks or struggles that I’ve been dealing with recently. Something that I’ve found somewhat fascinating over the years is whether we ever actually change people’s minds when we have conversations or share our perspectives, or think…

  • Lessons From Pain

    Note: I realize that the theme of this piece overlaps some with part of what I covered in the last piece, so there is a bit of redundancy. I apologize for that in advance but I think there is still some value to be found here additional to what I wrote before, so perhaps look…

  • The Lessons of Mortality, Approaching 2021 & Cutting The Noise

    Facing this new year one of the things that struck me recently was the returning wisdom of always being able to find opportunity in a situation no matter how dire things may appear. In the midst of the haphazard handling of the Covid-19 epidemic by the United States, the passing of a family member, and…