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Well, we’re moving into the fifth week of lockdown here, and really this weekend it started to hit me just how boring it is to not be able to have human contact. And really this seems to be- there’s something happening in this situation that’s like an acceleration of what’s been happening already. As we […]

So clearly time is one of those tricky things that you can never really quite get a hold on it. You can never really hold the current time, because it’s always passing through, maybe just like water flowing down a river. It’s a common metaphor to use for the passing of time, because you simply

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