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·Mar 9, 2022

Get Drunk On Life

Learning How To Be Yourself Through “Zorba The Greek” The psychologist, Winnicot, believed that those in childhood, raised by depressed or abusive parents, would tend to develop a hyper-compliant ‘false self’. They may learn to not ask for attention and will give up on being spontaneous. “The child gives up on having a spontaneous, desiring self in order to…

Self Improvement

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Get Drunk On Life
Get Drunk On Life
Self Improvement

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Feb 18, 2022

Is This All There Is?

Is this all there is? Whenever I accomplish anything, both honourably large and pleasurably small, I’m always offered that lingering emptiness. And I always take it. It usually arrives shortly after the confetti drops and the trumpets sound. The noise of celebration fades out and I’m left alone. The question…

Self Improvement

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What Is This The Emptiness You Feel After You Succeed?
What Is This The Emptiness You Feel After You Succeed?
Self Improvement

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Feb 1, 2022

Hard Choices Easy Life, Easy Choices Hard Life.

There’s this quote by Jerzy Gregorek, this Olympic weightlifter, that I can’t help but hear in a thick Polish accent: hard choices easy life, easy choices hard life. Quotes usually work because they say so much with so little and this one really goes above and beyond in simplicity. Simply…

Self Improvement

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Hard Choices Easy Life, Easy Choices Hard Life.
Hard Choices Easy Life, Easy Choices Hard Life.
Self Improvement

4 min read


Jan 27, 2022

Should You Commit Ego Death?

A common resolution to most human conflict is the minimization or eradication of the self in some form. Anxious? Remember that you’re not the centre of the universe and that none of this really matters. Unsure of who you are? The self isn’t constant so why try to find something…

Philosophy

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Should You Commit Ego Death?
Should You Commit Ego Death?
Philosophy

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Jan 15, 2022

Be Like Water: How Bruce Lee’s Philosophy Can Improve Your Life

Many watching this video have probably seen the famous YouTube video where Bruce Lee talks about his philosophy of being like water. Beyond that, many of us tend to remember Lee as an amazing martial artist and entertainer, much less as a serious philosopher. However Bruce Lee was anything but…

Martial Arts

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Be Like Water: How Bruce Lee’s Philosophy Can Improve Your Life
Be Like Water: How Bruce Lee’s Philosophy Can Improve Your Life
Martial Arts

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Jan 15, 2022

The Freakiest Psychologist You’ve Never Heard Of (It’s Not Freud!)

The early days of psychoanalysis are often imagined as a deeply sexual, dark and taboo period in the study of psychology. Many may look at Freud’s obsession with mother loving for example. …

Sex

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The Freakiest Psychologist You’ve Never Heard Of (It’s Not Freud!)
The Freakiest Psychologist You’ve Never Heard Of (It’s Not Freud!)
Sex

9 min read


Dec 29, 2021

The Desire To Simply Not Exist

I think that a rarely discussed but commonly felt desire is to simply not exist. This should of course be distinguished from its far more violent and permanent cousin; an act that admittedly still holds tightly to this longing for nothingness. But the former sensation is far more vague. To…

Philosophy

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The Desire To Simply Not Exist
The Desire To Simply Not Exist
Philosophy

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Feb 14, 2021

Why We’re All Terrible At Love According to Erich Fromm

This time of the year, when lovers rejoice and cupid’s arrow is drawn, can also be a painful one for those left un-cuffed. Love is a tricky concept; often imagined as some sort of fantastical and mystical state of union with another, something that you will fall into the moment…

Love

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Why We’re All Terrible At Love According to Erich Fromm
Why We’re All Terrible At Love According to Erich Fromm
Love

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Dec 27, 2020

Who is Slavoj Žižek?

If nobody can agree on what someone has said, have they really said anything at all? In the realm of philosophical and theological texts, the answer is more or less yes. The boundless interpretations of the bible and Hegel should not undermine the depth and insight of such works. But…

Philosophy

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Who is Slavoj Žižek?
Who is Slavoj Žižek?
Philosophy

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Dec 27, 2020

Who Is Sam Harris?

Some public intellectuals have suggested that discussing reality and truth entails a healthy skepticism when attempting any solutions or answers. Although such thinkers may be engaging in intellectually insightful and honest discourse, they fail to explicitly satisfy that which may have pushed them into the public arena to begin with…

Philosophy

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Who Is Sam Harris?
Who Is Sam Harris?
Philosophy

13 min read

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