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Tag: philosophy

  • Don’t Expect Anything

    Expectations are the death of happiness. Happy people’s expectations are within their grasp, while those of the unhappy and unfulfilled are always at a star’s distance. Your state is not a product of what you have, but how you choose to feel about it. Your family doesn’t have to support your dream to become a…

  • Catching The Dragon – On Life’s Eternal Pursuit Of Purpose

    Purpose is born from aligning your life with the transcendent. As a secular person it can be hard to pin down what exactly the meaning of waking up every day is all about. The real impact of the death of god was the sister disintegration of spirituality. The transcendent is not something woo-woo, mystical or…

  • 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…

  • Fall In Love With Failure

    The difference between the quitters and winners is being conditioned for the unexpected. When things are handed to us on a silver platter, too much, too soon, our confidence goes up un-anchored to our actual ability. Getting your ass handed to you early and often is a great embodied lesson that things may not manifest…

  • The Voice That Never Speaks

    All these why’s are incomplete. Whenever you ask a great sounding question it’s easy to forget that the answer is still bullshit. Even the truest seeming stories are at best inspiring delusions coughed up by someone you believe you ought to respect. People often accuse me of being cold or callous, but that isn’t even…

  • 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…

  • 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…