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Tag: mindfulness

  • Is Life Really Hard?

    Often we measure the difficulty of our lives by the perceived obstacles and hardships we encounter. Probably the biggest lesson that I’ve learned from developing myself via meditation, stoicism, psychology and even marketing, is that the value we extract from things is mostly a matter of our perception. Not only does the $50 wine glass…

  • The Self-Improvement Trap

    Sometimes the voice in our head telling us we need to get better is actually our greatest enemy. When I was a younger man, perfectionism and imposter syndrome in full stride, I spent inordinate amounts of time trying to better myself. I consumed all the quality self-improvement content I could get my hands on. Whether…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Lifestyle Design Part 3: Setting The Stage For Quality Work

    Originally, I hadn’t planned to associate this piece with lifestyle design when I first wrote about the ideas I’m about to share here, but I thought that much of what I’m gonna touch on is so fundamental to a quality life, that it may as well be put in the lifestyle design series. The basic…

  • One Antidote To Numbness

    Written Date: Tuesday, December 18th, 2018 Written By: Orion A. Webster I’ve been thinking for some time about transitioning from an age of information to an age of wisdom. It seems that when an abundance of information was created people assumed that the natural progression would be to seek out knowledge by default, but it…

  • Lifestyle Design Part 2: Analyzing Our Questions & Answers, & Grappling W/ Honesty

    Written By: Orion Webster It’s finally here, the part two of the lifestyle design series. Sorry it’s taken me so long to do this, this long of a hiatus was not planned, so I apologize. Jumping right in, last time we talked about asking big questions and I pointed out, that if one asks a…