Self Sabotage

It is normal for people to seek out their own happiness. This is especially true for relationships and careers. It is possible though that things do not go the way you want and you end up having negative feelings. In relationships, we can drive our partners to distraction with self sabotage. You have to make … Read more

PLATO ON: The Allegory of the Cave

A lot of people find philosophy not only to be boring but to be a myth. However, Plato felt his philosophy principles were the ways of life. How most profound story was the “Allegory of the Cave”. This was about people who had been living in a cave as prisoners for as long as they … Read more

The Sexiness of Bookish People

Nobody thinks that reading is really attractive because everyone thinks people who love to read are a bunch of nerds. However, people who love to read are some of the most educated people because the more you read the more you know. Everybody loves someone who is very well educated, but do they ever think … Read more

10 Meditation Apps For The Classroom

There are ten meditation apps for the classroom. School can be a very stressful thing nowadays, with all of the pressure that people feel from tests and social groups. It is a good idea to be able to get your mind a little bit freer from the things that stifle your growth. Headspace is one … Read more

HISTORY OF IDEAS – Failure

Humans have always messed up their lives. Failure has an amazing history. Life is full of failures and people can connect to the stories of everyone else failing. Greek tragedy was designed to show that bad things happen to good people. We need to be kind in the face of danger. Money, fame and military … Read more

The Faulty Walnut, your Brain.

Our brains are really amazing things. We trust them a lot, but these brains, like walnuts, are very frail. Most of the flaws of the walnut are due to evolution. We need to have skepticism regarding that walnut at the top of our skull. The walnut is not good at figuring out why it is … Read more

There is no Safety

One of the deepest longings human beings have is for safety. Yet, even though we always strive for safety, we are very fragile and can be gone in a matter of moments. So, the struggle is something that might seem in vain. In the end, erosion and high entropy destroys everything. Nothing promises safety and … Read more

How to Forgive

Forgiveness is something that all human beings are faced with some time in life. It is a choice we must make. We can hold grudges over people and give up on them. That is the easy way. There are other ways to handle it. When people behave in bad ways, it tends to be because … Read more

PHILOSOPHY: Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was an amazing philosopher. He tried to work out how human beings could be good and kind outside of religious traditions. That basically means if people can be good at the being level and not at the intellect. His family was deeply religious and also very strict. He realized a lot about how … Read more

GMAT Scores Keeping Going Higher At Leading Business Schools

The average score on the Graduate Management Admission Test is around 547. The average scores of accepted applicants to the nation’s most elite business schools is much higher. One school recently set a class average score record that places them in the ninety seventh percentile of all test takers. Any guess which one? Elite test … Read more

HISTORY: Art

Art has a very high stature in modern societies. But, some people might wonder what the point of art actually is. It is highly valued, but we might wonder what it is all about. It was clear in the past what the point of art was. We need to go back in time to understand … Read more

Transference

Transference is the subconscious transfer of feelings from the past to the present. At the heart of the theory is the idea that our expectations of what other people are like, it dictated by what the people were like in our childhoods, especially our parents. It makes us project qualities on the world around us. … Read more

The Wisdom of Pessimism

There is a wisdom to pessimism. It prepares people for the worst and protects people from being disappointed. We live in a pretty optimistic world, which is a result of business advertising to us. We have lost the wisdom in seeing the glass half empty. We may be taught that pessimism is a bad thing, … Read more

This Is How To Stop Checking Your Phone: 5 Secrets From Research

Children don’t learn empathy and emotional intelligence from screens. And Adam says kids now spend 20% less time playing face-to-face. Guess where that time went? Exactly. When you say “can’t” it feels as though some external force is telling you you shouldn’t be doing this thing. The way human motivation works and the way human … Read more