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How To Identify Hobbies That Are Complete Timewasters
A thought experiment to help your own thinking. This might be more helpful to your happiness than you at first suspect.
Habits
These posts cover the tremendous power of habits. We are what we repeatedly do, and we become what we set our minds to doing via habits.
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What's The Toughest Race in the World?
Because we're talking about human endeavors, toughness is measured in all the ways that people may find themselves suffering.
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What if Humanity Created God Rather Than the Opposite?
Rather than creativity being something special and rare, I now lean towards thinking it's much rarer for people to stifle their instinct to create
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It Took Me 20 Years To Join This Ultra-Exclusive Club
The Six Star Finishers Club, that is, of persons who have completed all six of the Abbot World Marathon Majors
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Can Doing Less Help You Shine Like a Superstar?
Just practicing more doesn’t help if you aren’t learning valuable lessons
Newsletters
Is There Pleasure and Profit in Walking to Places?
Is it because we're pressed for time that we don't want to get out of our cars? Or because we don't want to walk?
Paradise Found
In Strangers' Living Rooms
Every time I fly, the distance I contemplate driving to avoid flying goes up.
Newsletters
What Would You Do With 1,000 Hours? (Newsletter 066)
If I was following my own advice, I would say look to the underlying value of things. What is it you really want to accomplish?
Stoics
Be Patient
All good things come to those who wait.
Guest Posts
Peripatetics (by Panagiotis Perysinakis)
Walking became more than an excuse for physical exercise. It became an effortless and very natural exercise in meditation. And it proved a soothing ritual in helping me prepare to face, and then face and process the exodus of my father from this life.
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How's Your Moral Hygiene? (Newsletter 050)
When it comes to achieving good health, people have followed physical hygiene practices for over a century with good results, dietary hygiene practices for half that time with decidedly mixed results, and mental hygiene practices for a few decades with promising results.
Paradise Found
Americans Already Work Two Extra Full-Time Jobs
No matter what we are doing, we are now typically simultaneously consuming media in some form.