Category: mind

  • 3 Ways to Open Up To Yourself

    While one may claim we’re stuck with ourselves and ask, how could we ever escape? I’ve suggested two methods by which we do escape to ourselves – blocking and masking. Blocking is the act of running from cognitive dissonance or otherwise avoiding any repulsive experience or memory. Masking occurs when we attempt to convince ourselves…

  • Perception and Getting To Know Myself

    I am presently a bit obsessed with getting to know myself better. An exercise I recommend practicing regularly, since we are constantly experiencing, growing and evolving. Learning about and deepening awareness and understanding of self is imperative to growth and realizing potential. Most pressing of recent personal findings is a need to fix and heal…

  • The Most Boring Man Alive

    I am the most boring man alive. I’m less funny, less entertaining, less interesting, less adventurous, less energetic, less excitable and less irrational than ever before. I’m more equanimous, more comfortable and more at peace than any me I’ve ever known. I’m like my perfectly stable father but on a double dose of Benzos, floating…

  • The Egg by Andy Weir

    The Egg by Andy Weir You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly…

  • Success with Michael Cera

    Michael Austin Cera is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Arrested Development, Youth in Revolt, Superbad, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Juno. Here, he has some good advice in this sketch but it’s posted here purely for your entertainment. I shouldn’t need to say this, but…

  • The Success Principles by Jack Canfield

    Jack Canfield, best-selling author, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, wrote The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be with Janet Switzer in 2005. In it, Canfield reveals 64 principles to achieve great levels of success.