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An Important Piece of The Puzzle: The Words Matter, Inside and Out.
The words we use affect us, whether we are describing our own behaviour or the behaviour of others, whether we are using our inside voice or outside voice. I learned this important insight in New Zealand, thanks to a short introductory seminar to the methodology of the Virtues Project, taught by two of its founders. […]
Before Good and Evil: A Feeling Needs No Justification.
August 9, 2011
I wonder at what point in human history we started to evaluate whether or not our feelings should exist and whether or not we should express them. For example, when did we start thinking and saying, “I don’t have a right to feel the way I feel” or “I have no reason to feel this […]
A Lesson From Paradise: Eat, Drink, and Feel Sadness!
July 19, 2011
A few years ago, I accidentally stumbled upon a very specific process that helped me sort my shit out. It still does. Currently, my friend Nadine is trying to sort her shit out. I can’t be certain my process will be of any use to her but it might be and, if not her, maybe, […]
The Ecstasy of Being’s Lightness: Concerning Milan Kundera, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Weakling Smurf.
February 11, 2009
I am a huge fan of Milan Kundera’s novels and essays. He writes the kind of book that I read straight through in a single sitting and then immediately re-read once I’ve finished. His writing, his ideas, his story-telling — even in translation — move me like no other. On more than one occasion his […]
Sunday, A Day Well-Spent Re-Branding Myself
January 19, 2009
Yesterday, most of my time was devoted to re-branding myself — that is, re-vamping my CV. It was surprisingly fun, I think, because it didn’t take too much squinting, tweaking, or twisting to completely re-characterize my life’s experience right before my eyes. I should probably say explicitly that I re-branded myself in good faith. No […]
Keeping the Glass Half-full is Hard Work
December 19, 2008
1. Getting and maintaining a positive attitude, especially when a person does not already have it, takes a lot of hard work, effort, time, and diligence. A person doesn’t become positive by flipping an internal switch when someone suggests the glass is half-full rather than half-empty. A positive attitude is a kind of skill that […]
An Important Discovery. October 2008. A Sunday. Nine-ish.
December 17, 2008
1. Other persons, despite some similarities, are not like me. I am unlikely to make proper sense of a person’s understanding of the world (unexpressed or otherwise), her intentions, or her behavior, if I assume it is always like or identical to my own. It is possible to make sense of another person’s understanding of […]
September 1, 2011
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