Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Those who identify with Stoic philosophy, don’t refer to themselves as ‘Stoics.’* But as Massimo Pigliucci says (at 15:00), they prefer to refer to themselves as ‘Prokoptontis’. What is a prokoptontis? Someone who is hopefully making progress. And that seems like a good and virtuous way to live life. You can’t be perfect, but you can constantly be your best,…
All the closest relationships you had with people when you were growing up (including your parents, siblings and school friends), in terms of how frequently you saw them once upon a time, compared to now, are now in their tail end. With this being Mother’s Day, it’s a perfect reminder of why The Tail End matters, and as Tim…
If you just come out and say ‘I don’t care’ about something, without anyone asking (as opposed to someone asking ‘Do you care about…?’, it’s possible that you actually do care. And a lot. The actually don’t care or worry about are the things we don’t even think about. And definitely not the things that make us think ‘I don’t…
Surely, surely we must see that? Every man was privileged; there was only one class of men, the privileged class. – Meursault in Albert Camus’ The Outsider You are one of the few billion people that have been lucky enough to be thrown into life. So, how are you? Are you alive? Well, you’re lucky (OH MY MY).
Tim Ferriss says that a person’s success in life is measured by the amount of difficult conversations they have (with others, but I’d also say with yourself, considering this). And I’d also add that the conversations have to be honest. And confrontations often fall right into that difficult conversation pile. But they don’t need to. Talking about things like two…
The time you have to change your answer to that question is today. And you don’t necessarily have to permanently solve the issue of heart disease or anything, but when it comes to saying: ‘I wanted to <insert whatever thing here>, but I didn’t…’ Or: ‘I was going to <insert whatever thing here> but I didn’t because of <insert lame…
In Albert Camus’ book, The Outsider, Meursault is an honest bloke –to himself, to his boss and his girlfriend. And when his girlfriend asks him, ‘Do you love me?’ He replies: ‘That kind of question has no meaning.’ And he then thinks to himself that he supposed he didn’t. And a few minutes later, despite her being disappointed or slightly upset,…
If you’re having a day where you’re worried, anxious or uncertain (is that a bad thing?), listen to this – it’s impossible to keep feeling the same way. You can always go to your Kokomo, anytime, and anywhere you are. And the same goes for this: Because if you’re alive, you are one of the 10 billion people lucky enough to ever…
This is Izzy from The Last Kiss, and in this scene from the movie, his mate tries to guilt him into coming with on a massive trip by judging the fact that all he does is go ice fishing every day, and that is an ‘incomplete’ or ‘pathetic’ life. But Izzy is happy just going ice fishing, and he’d be…
Some of the greatest, most significant and most powerful moments in your life may be the ones where you just stop, breathe, live and take in where you are in your life at that exact present moment. But trying to fight how things natural just go may make you not capable of handling the sudden random occurrences of your life and…