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Purposeâthe meaning you assign to your existenceâis the central question of your life.It is your north star; the highest good that you can imagine. It is responsible for your greatest triumphs and your proudest moments. It is a legacy that will affect many whose paths intersect your own: your chi...
A sovereign is someone who is completely independent and wields supreme power. Inherent in the definition is the expectation that that person enjoys the spoils of victory, bears the burden of defeat, and takes full responsibility for both.There is someone who is sovereign in your life, right now,...
I watched the sun come up exactly due east this morning, on its way southânot for the winter, but causing it.As the Earth orbits the sun, it does so with a slight tilt, like a basketball spinning on a finger, but at an angle, not straight up and down. This tilt is properly known as the obliquity ...
â© â© â©An Existential Excavationâ© â© â©Hope.Faith.Belief.These are wonderful attributes of the human spirit. They enable us to create our most profound moments, and to persevere through difficult times. They inspire our greatest achievements; our most significant accomplishments.But they are not to b...
Put an animal in a cage. Divide the cage with a small fence. Shock the animal when it occupies the left side of the cage.What will it do?Jump to the other, non-electrified side of the cage. Just as you would.What happens when we electrify both sides of the cage?The animal will eventually succumb ...
Every year, I think itâs my imagination. Now I know that it isnât.Most mornings, I get up early to walk four or five miles as a way to start my day. The last few years, I have noticed something unexpected.Summer here in the great American Southwest is hot. Thereâs nothing unusual about that. We c...
Like most things, itâs a double-edged sword, a tool.A hammer can be used to build a house, or commit homicide.Mindset is much more powerful.Mindset created the hammer, defined civilization, built worlds, explores space, has transformed health and longevity; motivates me to share my thoughts with ...
Observation is the first step in learning.We become aware of something visually, emotionally or through some other combination of senses, thought and intuition.That experience becomes an observation that leads our cognition somewhere:âI wonder where that road goes?ââIs that a major seventh chord?...
There is a concept in psychology known as Weberâs Law:The smallest detectable change in a stimulus tends to scale with the magnitude of that stimulus.Weber's Law defines a variable known as the Just Noticeable Difference (JND)âthe smallest detectable change in a stimulus.Imagine someone touches t...
Itâs a superpower, really; an existential Swiss Army knife to help you get the most out of being human.Andâbuilt in at no extra chargeâit singleâhandedly enables an oftâforgotten yet essential piece of what makes consciousness great in the first place.But letâs not get ahead of ourselves.I first ...
