“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… the man who never reads lives only one.” ―George R.R. Martin So here we go: How to Read More Books, In Four Lifelong Steps 1. Stop Reading Books For Bad Reasons “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ―Dr. Seuss If dogs are…

Writing in a journal — without expectations or judgments — may be the single best thing I’ve done for my mental health. These rules best remind me that timed-writing is a kind of exercise in self-care. After all: It is a lot easier to start and keep a writing habit…

With 700,000 rooms opened each day, Clubhouse can be overwhelming.

This post summarizes the amazing conversation I streamed live with Dr. Cori Wong on November 26th, 2021. If you want to go deeper, you should check out Cori’s full reflections on this conversation and buy her a coffee. Themes of Philosophy (and Conversation): · Living our values through our actions (and how they emerge by…

When I searched for images of “play,” I found tons of photos of children, and not one image of adults meaningfully engaged in a flow state. But play, of course, is not just for children. Play helps us prefrontal cortex-heavy human beings continue to grow throughout our adult lives. Defining Play We…

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.” — Brother Khalil How should we teach philosophy to young people? For our purposes, philosophy is not a separate subject or content-area where students learn, for example, what Descartes thought about the mind…

If you’re on Clubhouse and into philosophy, you’ve probably found some cool philosophy rooms. By “philosophy room,” I don’t necessarily mean rooms where moderators read treatises Nietzsche (which is a thing). I mean rooms where the moderators and participants cultivate a certain kind of invigorating conversation about what really matters. …

On Wednesday afternoon, I opened a clubhouse room titled, “What is the Good Life? And can it be taught/learned?” Here’s a selection of my favorite answers paraphrased for clarity and connection. 🥉 What is the Good Life? The good life is a simple, joyful life. Wealth or no wealth is a construct. If you are willing…

The old existential question — who am I? — is perhaps the most potent and fertile of all perennial questions. Yes, Socrates, straddling the divide between oral and written culture, tells us to “Know Thyself” as if we know how to go about doing so. And nearly two thousand years…