As an extreme introvert, I have never been too deeply involved or attached to the outside world. I remember being a teenager and thinking, "Damn, I should go outside for a while so I won't be such a weirdo." So I put on a mask from...
Another day, another tweet about the magical power of meditation for self-improvement, written like this: I meditated for 7000 hours The majority of my results came in the last 500 hours. Here are the best tools I've found to sky-rocket your progress - prevent you from wasting time:...
Siddhārtha Gautama, known as Buddha, said long ago: “Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” Therefore it seems that people have always had a problem with being present, but the amount of stimuli and social pressure these days have escalated this problem over the moon. Our modern...
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth,” wrote Plato, referring to the words of Socrates during his trial and final fate — death. And although we all know Socrates as the father of philosophy or even wisdom, quoting his famous words: “All I know is that I...
The most misunderstood things in life are often taken for granted because then it’s hard to see that something might be wrong. And that’s the whole idea of Plato’s famous Allegory, where chained prisoners sit in a cave and stare at the shadows on the wall, unable...
Humans are creatures searching for meaning in a world that seems not to have any particular meaning — all those stars we see far up in the sky don’t even try to make sense and just cause a wonderful and colossal explosion of energy. Oh, how much we don’t...
