He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how – Nietzsche. When it comes to meaning I feel that I need to nail my colours to the mast. It is a big topic and sometimes a very controversial one. For me it implicates the core of who we are – which [...]
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I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is called After the Breakthrough Comes the Work of Consolidation. Breakthroughs get our attention – they are gripping at the time and memorable in retrospect. But they aren’t a major part of our time – we spend most of the time [...]
Our western culture I think overestimates the importance of thinking. For instance, our schooling (which I refuse to call education) is almost entirely focused on thinking. In Australia of late there is a push of the ‘back to basics’ variety – the basics being reading, writing and ‘rithmatic. The basics are not considered to be [...]
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I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is a way to reply (at least internally) to those who try to minimise the impact of unpleasant events on us. It is a phrase used in that wonderful novel Catch-22. The phrase is used by the main character Yossarian. Yossarian [...]
I think when young we have the need to be protected – we are dependent on care takers and authority figures to act as filters for us. As adults protection is often necessary when we are making big changes. This is in some tension with our need for autonomy and indpendence. This need of protection [...]
My guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog was prompted by the book The Black Swan. Because the future is uncertain it makes sense to spread risk – but this goes against being efficient. Especially in our relationships I think it makes sense for us to be inefficient. The post is called [...]
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On the Psychology Philosophy and Real Life blog I have a guest post about thinking in terms of great periods of time – thousands of years. I find that this makes a difference to my experience – curiously it doesn’t make the present less important but it does help me be clearer on priorities. It [...]
Not so long ago, in a universe quite close to this one there was the realm of Slaog. I would like to take you on a tour. Slaog is in many ways a nice place to be – here, life works. People know what they need and want – and their set about achieving these [...]
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This is a review of The New 10 – 40 days to creating a boldly beautiful life from the inside out by Dawn McIntyre. The publicists were kind enough to send me a free copy to see if I wanted to review it. As you can see I thought it was worth reviewing. This is [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog called Changing Our (Relationship to Our) Past. It came from a conversation with a friend about how they couldn’t go back and get what they wanted then. This got me thinking about how our past is present with us and how we [...]
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