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In 1888, Friedrich Nietzsche published Twilight of the Idols, in which he wrote: âWas mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.â (What doesnât kill me makes me stronger.)This sentiment was a critical part of Nietzscheâs Ăbermensch (Superman) concept; a vision of humans who create optimal lives in ...
The What-If Mindshift: Why your brain defaults to fearâand how to train it to imagine opportunity.âYou can âwhat-ifâ yourself to death,â she said.She was right, of course. Iâm an INFP, a first-born, a retired CEO, and a Capricorn (if you believe in the power of any of that). My reputation and wha...
You are on a long journey and you finally reach your destination. Now what, now that you have arrived? Should you continue?Youâve planned this adventure for a long time. Weeks or months; maybe most of your life.You might have finished that graduate degree, or moved to a new town (or both). Perhap...
It was my first job, when I was 14.I had reached a plateau in my playing and knew I needed some formal lessons. There was no YouTube back then, and the guitar teacher I had for six months when I was eight, had been murdered. The tiny town I lived in only had one guitar teacher at the time.So I we...
This article is the last in my mini-series on fear, stress and anxiety.In the United States today, nearly 100 million adultsâmore than 40 percent of the populationâregularly use some chemical substance to manage anxiety.Conservative estimates say that roughly 82 million drink alcohol weekly, 18â3...
You are. Miraculous, that is.If you are reading or hearing this, you are here, alive and conscious. And that, my friends, is truly a miracle, because there is no rational explanation for itâfor you.I am thankful to have been here for so many years, to experience this strange simulation we call âl...
Itâs easy to feel âless than,â especially in todayâs world, where every time you doom scroll your social media feed you are bombarded with tales of the (apparently) rich, carefree and famous. You probably have success stories too, and itâs importantâfor many reasonsâto remember them: to remember ...
Letâs just get it over with; think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable:Youâre afraid.Iâm afraid. Everyone is afraid.If you donât think youâre afraid, itâs because low-level (or more) fear has become your baseline. If you were a goldfish, fear would be the water in which you swim. What Do ...
The lack of meaning in life is a soul-sickness whose full extent and import our age has not yet begun to comprehend. - C.G. JungAsk people to list the most important things in life, and you will typically get a relatively short list with things like God, country and family on top. But there is a ...
I suddenly become effortlessly, completely focused, and I experience the object of my attention in hyper-detail, as though my resolution has increased ten-fold. I am unaware of time, unaware of me, as though the interface of my body and mind have evaporated. Itâs hard to explain: I am at once det...
