You don’t trust a lot of your instincts from when you were a kid (e.g. That you can fly, one day you ‘want to be a real T-Rex’, or that you actually get 3 lives IN REAL LIFE, like in Mario Bros*), so when something sets you off or upsets you, why trust those instincts (when they were probably formed around the same time)?

* That last one, my brother told me that one. When I found out it wasn’t true (when I was … More

A Deep Dive into: Insults [pt.2] – Words are nothing but a series of letters arranged in a certain order to make a certain sound that comes out of the face hole.

Not only do insults have absolutely zero possibility to do physical or psychological harm to you, but the same thing … More

Asked how a man should best grieve his enemy, Epictetus replied, “By setting himself to live the noblest life himself” … More

Once dismiss the view you take, and you are out of danger. Who, then, is hindering such a dismissal? … More

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. – Marcus Aurelius from Meditations If someone pisses you off, upsets you, even … More

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control and do not remain out of … More

Josh Waitzkin has this thing he does, and taught his son to do. Whenever he does something stupid, fucks up or … More