Remind Yourself, “I am Mortal”

Every day, when you wake up, remind yourself of your mortality. Remind yourself throughout the day, and before you go…

Aim High or Aim Low?

One of the most difficult aspects of goalsetting is deciding how high to set the bar. How reasonable should you…

The politicization of everything over the last five years has brought with it a refusal to listen to the other…

There’s this quote from the Stoic philosopher Seneca in his essay On the Happy Life that I often think about…

I often try to imagine who I would be in a concentration camp. Whenever my conscience berates me, it does…

A year ago I wrote an essay titled “On The Individual (A Rant)”. I wrote the essay during the riots…

It seems as though some people are born with a preference for safety while others place a much higher value…

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in…

Warning: This essay contains many horrific stories. It includes discussion of death, violent rape, torture, and every imaginable form of…

I tend to use a lot of quotations from great thinkers of the past. I do this because it is…