A response I sometimes get to notions of self-development, changing ourselves, is the idea that, for me, it’s too late. I’m too old. I missed my chance, and now there’s no point in me making all these changes. I’m just too far behind. And it’s very understandable to have this feeling, that we sort of […]

Time is one of those tricky things, because it doesn’t really exist in a way that we can really grab it. And yet we can almost treat it like it exists. We can we can measure something that we call time, measure it through clocks, and then we can think about having certain numbers of

Well, it’s a sunny winter day here in Toronto, and this is about as bright and sunny as it gets here in the winter, just about noon, full sun. And throughout this winter, this is a time when those living in northern parts of the world are really feeling this kind of winter bleakness. There’s

A recurring feeling I get is wow, where did all the time go? And I know I’m certainly not alone with that feeling. It seems that, even though, if I look at my activities of the day, I’m not doing anything that is directly time-wasting. I seem to be using all my time towards a

Can you imagine if there was a meaning class in school? I mean, out of all the things that students are required to learn as part of their education, what if there was a class that actually was about why you should be learning what you’re learning in school, that can maybe answer the question

You know, a lot of this talk about escapism versus facing reality, working versus laziness or avoiding working, it’s presented in this kind of notion of what you should do. You should be working. And then you escape, you crave escapism, and then you feel, oh, this is something wrong with me. I should be

I’ve spent a lot of time playing computer games, video games, which, when I look back on those many hours, when I was in those hours, it really seemed like the most fun thing. I was absorbed, I was dedicated, I was immersed, I was putting all my energies into achieving some task, and then

My idea for today is that we have this kind of internal market where we can make trades. And on the one hand, we have suffering, and on the other hand, we have satisfaction. So we can trade suffering and get some satisfaction. And this would be, for example, exercise, where we are doing things

The self-development game can be a very serious business, talking about stopping wasting time and using our time more usefully, getting serious, getting your life together, stopping wasting time with just idle pursuits. It’s all generally quite serious stuff. And often a lot of the things that are fun are things that, when you get

In the world of biology, the immune system is a system that is there to protect an organism by attacking outside invaders, pathogens, diseases, to protect the organism. But when there’s an autoimmune disease, that is when the immune system overreacts and applies its power too much, so that it actually harms the body that