Sublime

Many of the conflicts within us can be seen as a result of these opposing urges pulling us in opposing directions, and an important part of life involves recognising and respecting the power and validity of both, rather than denouncing one and attempting to live entirely by the other. They are at work in the way we impose order on chaos and randomn

Trust your instincts.

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6 The Stoic Building Blocks

Unavoidably, I am biased towards those philosophies that sit best with my personality. My nature is a little on the introverted side, which is ideal for our purposes, as the vast majority of philosophers are and were too. More extrovert personalities might find themselves constitutionally unsuited to chunks of this book’s advice, but as we all exis

I’m making a psychological point: that we can still view spirituality (in regard to having a sense of meaning, and a conscious dialogue with what lies beneath) as an important internal experience, perhaps more important than ever in this age of addiction and distraction.

the greatest card manipulator of our own time, Steve Forte,

the idea of using Alter Egos to create some distance between how you currently see yourself and how you’d like to perform is not only smart, it’s backed by research.

magicians take advantage of your theory of mind in order to fool you (with the larger, more benevolent goal of creating wonder),