There’s a giant in my head and it ain’t me. I despise that giant. Every time I fall into the abyss, I have to fight him, he beats me, forever he beats me and then somehow he releases me and I crawl out, wasted but alive. Until the next time. Recently, I read about Leicester Continue Reading
Start Your Day Like Marcus Aurelius
And avoid these 3 awful things I was having sleepless nights, when the jackals circled me, tore and ripped at me through the long, dark hours. When dawn came, I pulled the blankets over my head and lay petrified beneath them. I went on like that for months. Among other things, Marcus Aurelius helped me. Continue Reading
This One Trick, Tricks Death
I learnt it in my job as a personal historian who has conducted hundreds of interviews with people over 80 I was looking for a woman who lived a few miles from a tiny village in the west of Ireland, who was a hundred years of age. It was midday. The small public house at Continue Reading
Loneliness Is Killing Us
Lethal as smoking a pack a day Yikes. Nicholas Kristof, writing in the New York Times kicks the guts with some staggering stats. 1 in 5 adults are lonely 1 in 2 are unmarried 1 in 3 marriages are strained 1 in 4 live alone Dr. Vivek Muthy, US Surgeon General under Obama, tells Nicholas that he, Continue Reading
7 Life Lessons from Tao
The Tao Te Ching takes 20 minutes to read and 20 lifetimes to understand. This dog learned it in 1. The Tao Te Ching, a two and half thousand-year text credited to Laozi, the second most translated book in world literature, forms the basis of Taoism. It teaches how to live in harmony with the Continue Reading
7 Stoic Exercises to Relax and Be Calm
1. Don’t Give A Fuck Practice Seriously, Don’t Give A Fuck about other people’s opinions, any of them. You cannot control what anyone thinks of you, so why worry? Fear of being ostracized from the herd is in our DNA. If you got cut from the herd, you died. That isn’t the case anymore. Practice — Saying things Continue Reading