Sitemap - 2024 - Mind Candy
The Path to Human Flourishment
Gratitude, Receiving, & Giving
Better Living Through Reflections
When Enough Provides Happiness
Enough, Discipline, & Pleasure vs Happiness
Life Lessons, Chasing Presence, & Finding Balance
Social Creatures, Friendship, & Rethinking
The Path to Happiness is Paved with Others
A Conscious Existence, Transformative Experiences, & Sublimely Beautiful
Autobiographical Memory, Sociality, & Nostalgia’s Perspective
Child’s Wonder, Pleasure in Knowing, & Self-Transcendence
Find Stillness, A View from Above, & Nature’s Immensity
Life’s Horizon, The Universal Endpoint, & Death vs Dying
Mind Over Body, Choice Decisions, & The Inevitable
Dancing With Purpose, Tribes, & Life Maps
The Abstraction of Death, Narcissism, & Existential Value
The Infinite Game of Relations, Empathy’s Middle Ground, & Altruistic Yearnings
The Infinite Game of Human Relations
Books as Mentors, Role Models, & Seizing the Day
Affection for Neighbors, Feeling Necessary, & Kindness
Feedback vs Advice, Seeking Coaches, & Building Maps for the Future
Self Reflection Through Others
Making Friends and Having Difficult Conversations
The Porcupine’s Dilemma, Social Pain, & Direct Experience
Right Reason, The Artist’s Touch, & Continuous Exploration
Look Deeper, Life’s Constraints, and The Tightrope of Great Art
The Dip, Our Emotional Investment, & The Authentic Self
The Need, and Power, of Creativity
The Myth of Genius, Structured Creativity, and The Creative Machine
Creativity as the Ultimate Form of Freedom
Reins of Power, Light of the Future, & Knowledge over Fear
Irrational fears trump rational reasoning
Acknowledge, Reflect, & Control
Seeds for the Positive are Found in the Negative
Building Confidence, Prolonged Failure, & Learning to Hedge Failure
Overcoming the Fear of Failure
Experience, Boredom, & Life's Questions
Learning to Embrace Discomfort
Change the Mind, Not the Venue
Anxiety, Change, & Habituation
Moral Sense, Making Corrections, & Virtue as the Highest Goal
Better and Better, Each and Every Day
Mental, Emotional, and Moral Courage
Application, Decisions, & Aging with Wisdom
On Finding One's Fulfillment and Happiness through Mastery and Vocation
On the Pitfalls of Perfectionism and the Triumphs of Failure
Mastery Over Perfection, Perfection's Myth, & The Relentless Pursuit
Control, Struggle, and the Pursuit for Deeper Learning
A Friend’s Assistance, Building Character, & Avoiding Outcome-Driven Desires
Finding Freedom from Judgment (+ chance to win a free audiobook)
Finding an Authentic Existence
On the True Self, Artificiality, and Our Relationship with Life
The Powers, and Pitfalls, of Empathy
A Birthday for a Philosopher-King
Thoreau's Travels Through Grief
Suffering and the Pursuit of Virtue
Wednesday Wisdom: Loneliness, Moral Isolation, & Solitude
Wednesday Wisdom: Optimism, Hope, and The Fragility of Ideas
Wednesday Wisdom: Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory Pleasures, Selfhood, & Second Mountains
Wednesday Wisdom: Visiting Pain, Others’ Calamities, & The Desire for Suffering
Wednesday Wisdom: Trust, Mistrust, & An Intellectual Life
Wednesday Wisdom: Practical Wisdom, Life’s Immediacy, and Exceptions to the Rule
You're Only as Good as the Questions You Ask
Wednesday Wisdom: Learning to Think, Illusion of Knowledge, & Train of Thought
The Black and White Thinking Problem
Wednesday Wisdom: Rethinking, Collective Illusions, and Defaulting to Truth
Wednesday Wisdom: Yielding, Acceptance, Contentment
Wednesday Wisdom: Misfortune, Luck, and Opportunity
Wednesday Wisdom: Life Choices, Practice, and Character