August 2021

So I tried doing this as I was watching some of these intense games, and I imagined, well, what would it be like if I didn’t care? If I didn’t mind whether England wins the championship or not. What if I don’t care? What if it makes absolutely no difference to me? And sort of […]

So it’s one of the most basic ideas of Stoic philosophy that you make a division and a clear separation between the things you can control and the things you cannot control. And then you only worry about the things you can control, and anything you cannot, you just throw up your hands and just

Are you a consumer? We hear a lot about consumerism, this idea of wanting more, and just feeding ourselves, gorging on luxuries and entertainment, and just buying too many things. I see this consumer mindset, it’s beyond just buying lots of physical stuff, having big houses and fancy cars and all these toys. You see

Because money is something that we all basically need, and the need for it keeps coming back, it’s easy for money to become this overriding concern that kind of takes over our whole world, our whole life. And some of it can be looked at as greed, like we want more, we want more. But

Money, money, money. This is the preoccupation of so much of our lives every day, so much of our thoughts about how to get money, and so many of the limitations around what we can do. And money, it’s so easy for it to be entirely consuming, to just be completely focused on it, getting