December 2019

Work: it’s often presented as this wonderful thing that is just automatically good. Like being hard-working: that’s a great thing. Working hard is a great thing. Work is wonderful. But it seems like working is only as good as the work itself is. If we’re working on doing something very bad, that is also work. […]

Who do you feel a duty toward? Who is it your duty to support? I guess, some people, it would be nobody. Just take care of themselves. Some people don’t even take care of themselves. And for some people, it just seems like they have so many people that they just want to take care

Fear of missing out: this is something that many, if not all, of us have, to some degree. We feel like somehow the life we’re living is missing something, and that there’s so much going on out there that we want to be part of. But I would look at this in two ways. In

So I’m assuming that if you are listening to this, you are probably using a high-speed internet connection to get it, and if so, you are probably part of what could very broadly be described as the modern world, this world of high technology and everything we consider to be part of our modern way

The whole idea of self-development, self-improvement, changing myself, becoming a better person: all that kind of way of looking at things can sometimes feel like a real chore. It can really feel like maybe an impossible task. Especially for somebody just starting out on this path, the idea of, well, I’m gonna try to change

It’s one of the biggest clichés in self-development that it’s important to have gratitude. It’s important to be grateful. Count your blessings. Some people recommend a gratitude meditation. Write down everything you’re thankful for in your gratitude journal. And, you know, if you’re having a bad day, sometimes the last thing you want to hear

I love getting things done. Isn’t it great to just get things done, finished? Now today, Christmas Eve is a great day to feel that, because it is great to get things finished before Christmas, to be able to say OK, this is a natural pause in the year, Christmas to New Year’s, this end

The previous video in this conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvLqalxSp9w Got a comment from Rasa on the topic of free will, pointing out that this concept of free will can be misused, misapplied, to suggest that basically everything in our lives is our choice. We choose to be who we are. And so whatever situation we’re in, anybody

One of the oldest questions in philosophy, still endlessly renewed and yet never resolved, is the debate of free will versus fate. Do we choose what happens to us, or is it something that is done to us that is determined ahead of time, that’s something that we cannot change, and something that we just

The previous video in this conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iySMIVDym4 Got a comment from viewer Words Words referring to an earlier comment, where a viewer felt unloved and unwanted. And Words Words’s comment was that everybody wants to be wanted, but by people that we want. And what about the people that nobody wants, mentioning the “poor, disabled,