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The Path to Human Flourishment

Finding Strength in Failure

Gratitude, Receiving, & Giving

Better Living Through Reflections

When Enough Provides Happiness

Enough, Discipline, & Pleasure vs Happiness

Happiness Paved in Virtue

Virtue through Practice

Life Lessons, Chasing Presence, & Finding Balance

Illusions of Tomorrow

The Good Life

Social Creatures, Friendship, & Rethinking

The Path to Happiness is Paved with Others

Inquiry into the Sublime

A Conscious Existence, Transformative Experiences, & Sublimely Beautiful

A Sublime-Filled Existence

Nostalgia’s Sweet Bite

Autobiographical Memory, Sociality, & Nostalgia’s Perspective

The Longing for Yesterday

A Wonder-Filled Life

Child’s Wonder, Pleasure in Knowing, & Self-Transcendence

A Life Filled with Wonder

Living an Awe-Filled Life

Find Stillness, A View from Above, & Nature’s Immensity

The Awe of Life

Being a Body

Life’s Horizon, The Universal Endpoint, & Death vs Dying

Accepting Inevitability

We’re the Lucky Ones

Mind Over Body, Choice Decisions, & The Inevitable

Our Fear of Aging

Life’s Purpose

Dancing With Purpose, Tribes, & Life Maps

A Stadium of Influence

An Existential Crisis

The Abstraction of Death, Narcissism, & Existential Value

The Ticking of Time’s Hands

Asking for a Friend

The Infinite Game of Relations, Empathy’s Middle Ground, & Altruistic Yearnings

The Infinite Game of Human Relations

Paths to Finding a Mentor

Books as Mentors, Role Models, & Seizing the Day

Finding the Master

To Save a Life

Affection for Neighbors, Feeling Necessary, & Kindness

Imagining Justice

What Affects Us All

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

Our Occupation

Happy Accidents

Right Reason, The Artist’s Touch, & Continuous Exploration

The Creative Spirit

On Creativity

Look Deeper, Life’s Constraints, and The Tightrope of Great Art

Art as Imitation of Life

Overcoming Creative Blocks

The Dip, Our Emotional Investment, & The Authentic Self

Fighting Creative Resistance

The Need, and Power, of Creativity

The Myth of Genius, Structured Creativity, and The Creative Machine

Creativity as the Ultimate Form of Freedom

To Fear or Not to Fear

Reins of Power, Light of the Future, & Knowledge over Fear

Our Fear of the Future

Irrational fears trump rational reasoning

Acknowledge, Reflect, & Control

Fear as Intuition

Seeds for the Positive are Found in the Negative

Building Confidence, Prolonged Failure, & Learning to Hedge Failure

Overcoming the Fear of Failure

Remember, Nobody Cares

Experience, Boredom, & Life's Questions

Learning to Embrace Discomfort

Change the Mind, Not the Venue

Anxiety, Change, & Habituation

Life Must Be Lived

And Justice for All

Moral Sense, Making Corrections, & Virtue as the Highest Goal

Citizens of the World

Better and Better, Each and Every Day

Resist, Attack, & Account

The Age of Information Bloat

The Courage to Be

Mental, Emotional, and Moral Courage

The Brave Spirit

In Search of Wisdom

Application, Decisions, & Aging with Wisdom

The Power of Wisdom

On Finding One's Fulfillment and Happiness through Mastery and Vocation

Flow, Mastery, Fulfillment

Finding One’s Vocation

On the Pitfalls of Perfectionism and the Triumphs of Failure

Mastery Over Perfection, Perfection's Myth, & The Relentless Pursuit

The Veil of Perfectionism

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 Authentic Self

Our Gaze Upon the World

The Powers, and Pitfalls, of Empathy

A Birthday for a Philosopher-King

Breaking the Cycle of Disgust

Enraged in the Magic Kingdom

The Age of Rage

Thoreau's Travels Through Grief

Grief's Terrain

Virtue and Suffering

Suffering and the Pursuit of Virtue

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Loneliness, Moral Isolation, & Solitude

The Fear of Being Outcast

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Optimism, Hope, and The Fragility of Ideas

Our Tragic Optimism

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory Pleasures, Selfhood, & Second Mountains

The Illusions of Pleasure

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Visiting Pain, Others’ Calamities, & The Desire for Suffering

The experience of being alive

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Trust, Mistrust, & An Intellectual Life

The Pursuit of Folly

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Practical Wisdom, Life’s Immediacy, and Exceptions to the Rule

You're Only as Good as the Questions You Ask

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Learning to Think, Illusion of Knowledge, & Train of Thought

The Black and White Thinking Problem

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Rethinking, Collective Illusions, and Defaulting to Truth

The Believing Brain

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Yielding, Acceptance, Contentment

The Path of Acceptance

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Practice

It's About More than Results

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Misfortune, Luck, and Opportunity

Fortune's Favor

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Life Choices, Practice, and Character

The Redefined Discipline

Sweet Bites

Wednesday Wisdom: Loss, Control, & Letting Go

The Art of Letting Go