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One of the most powerful feelings of all, that seems to be behind so much human behaviour, is quite simply the fear of death. And it’s very understandable and natural that this is a big part of our behaviour, because it makes sense to have some fear of death. I mean, if fear is something […]

Faith is a word with a bad reputation, or at least certainly a whole range of connotations. I can’t even say the word “faith” without immediately imagining some kind of religious belief in some supernatural event that breaks all known laws of the universe, but I believe in it because I simply have faith. I’m

I’m thinking about the perspective on the timeline. We look at past, present and future. Now, of course, we don’t even need to think of it as a timeline at all. That’s just one way of looking at it. But if we imagine how we picture ourselves in the time dimension, past, present, future: now,

I talked about how it can be almost dangerous, in a way, to think about life too much like a story, because the things that happen to us, events in the real world are not laid on us like a carefully designed, orchestrated, prepared story made by a storyteller. At least as far as any

One of the benefits that I’m finding about having my life become more simple and more organized is that the things that I have, and the routines that I have, my home and my possessions, they’re starting to really feel like this is a tool. This is a tool that I can control and use

As part of this whole idea of making decisions with incomplete information, choosing what to do even though we really don’t know what’s going on: that’s something that’s been very helpful for me in self-development, in improving my life. Because, you know, when I’m in a bad mental state, you really can’t see the big

One of those life skills that seems to be very useful, and I’ve been slow to learn, is this idea of making decisions with incomplete information. It seems like so much of what we have to decide in life is what we really don’t know what the full picture is. So we have to, time

One of the basic challenges of self-development, self-improvement, is that so many of the things that we know are good for us are really kind of boring, at least compared to so many of the things that we know are bad for us, that are often very fun. After all, the things that are bad

It seems like there’s always a danger of life sliding into predictability. No matter how much we know that things change over time, and you know, we’re not in the same position we were last year, certainly the world isn’t, and we kind of know that things are always changing, but it just seems like,

A little trick that I’ve been enjoying thinking about, that I’ve found helpful, is this idea of kind of taking on a character. You know, if I’m finding that I’m having trouble behaving in the way that I want to behave, then I can sort of imagine a character who would do the things that