Last video, I talked about this decision, this division, of everything that’s going on into things we can control and things we cannot control. Just like the ancient Stoics were teaching 2000 years ago, it seems to be one of the most vital, central things that we can do to have a good mindset on […]

I don’t often talk about specific philosophies, specific traditions, in these videos, at least not so far, because I’m not particularly interested in following any particular tradition, in attempting to recreate some kind of system, or to do anything in that kind of organized way. I’m just interested in what works. I just want to

You know that feeling like when you’ve heard a song too many times, maybe it’s stuck in your head, or it’s just somehow repeating it, maybe your neighbour has it playing over and over again, and you’re just hearing the same thing again and again. And then the song ends, you get that one moment

In the last video, I talked about how having all our regular routines, our regular activities, regular freedoms, being suddenly taken away from us can help us to appreciate how much those things mean to us. After all, we don’t really appreciate anything until it is taken away. At least there’s a fuller appreciation that

Well, there’s one thing you can always say, no matter what the situation is, and that’s that when you lose something, when something is taken away, you are then better able to appreciate its value. So you could almost call this good news or a positive story, but it almost seems too cheap to do

So the journey continues to try to make sense of the situation, at least in so far as necessary to find some way to respond, and choosing how to act in the situation. Maybe really making sense of it isn’t the word, because our ability to really understand something, make sense of it, can often

Last video, I talked about what it means to listen to experts within a particular domain. So that when health experts are speaking, they’re speaking within the domain of health, so listening to them is probably a good idea when it comes to health, but there are no experts for life overall. And if you

In my last video, I used the phrase “I’m no expert, but” when starting to talk about the current situation, as it seems a prudent preface to any statement about this, that well, I can give my judgment of the situation, but I’m not an expert. It led me to think about what does it

So every week now, as we’re climbing the curve, getting more and more intensity of response to the situation, things are getting increasingly tense and nervous, and you can almost feel it in the the public, the whole situation. Of course, there’s one feeling you get just by, you know, reading the news, and that

I found it easy to get into a kind of state of mind where it’s all about waiting. I just want all of this situation to end. Now, I’ve already talked about how it’s never gonna go back to “normal”. There’s no “going back”, because time will always move forward into something new. So everything