Time Alone (chosen or not) can be a Chance to Hit the Reset Button
Steadily, slowly, research interest in solitude has been increasing. Note, solitude – time alone – is not synonymous with loneliness.
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It’s Better to Focus on where you are Going than How you are Feeling
We should focus less on what might make us happy, and more on achieving a sense of meaning, regardless of how we’re feeling.
I was Homeschooled for Eight Years: Here’s what I Recommend
I was homeschooled for eight years, from age 11 through to college, before it was a novel way for tiger parents to show off their […]
Let us now stop praising famous men (and women)
If we want to foster a society in which we treat each other as equals – we must stop excessive praising famous men & perverse incentives that encourage it.
Going Green is all About What you Gain, Not What You Give Up
It worries me to see pro-environmental action being equated with personal sacrifice. Going green is significant effort into living a sustainable life
Modern Technology is Akin to the Metaphysics of Vedanta
You might think that digital technologies, often considered a product of ‘the West’, would hasten the divergence of Eastern and Western philosophies. But within the […]
CEOs should have been the fall guys; why are they still heroes?
The contemporary adulation & admiration of CEOs raises the question of what enabled their continued idolisation, given what could well have been their fall from grace 10 years ago?
The urge to share news of our lives is neither new nor narcissistic
A quick look into the past as well as present that shows that the urge to share news of our lives is neither new nor narcissistic
Don’t worry about feeling sad: on the benefits of a blue period
Sadness or feeling sad is not a hindrance to experiencing positive emotions. Painful times confer other benefits that make us happier over the long term.
How the ‘war on drugs’ entrenches patterns of drug addiction
When we criminalise drugs & drug users, we ensure that the context of drug use habitually turns the brain toward shame, illegality, secrecy and depravity.