A few months ago as I walked past a Waterstones bookstore near where I lived, I turned my attention to the promoted material close to the entrance on my right. Tim Ferriss’ bright yellow and orange book Tools of Titans (2016) caught my eye. I recalled his name from a Talks at Google talk titled “How to Cage the Monkey Mind” I had listened to many months back. The talk was about applying the insights of stoic philosophy to modern…
Have you ever felt like you aren’t learning things as quickly as you’d like? While some of us are fast learners, many of us aren’t. Depending on our natural aptitude, our passions, and the quality of our mentors, we learn some things quicker than we do others. I am not a slower than average learner, but I’m not a whiz either. For people like us, helpful tips on how to optimize our learning efficiency are always welcome. That is…
Most of us value efficiency. Depending on our circumstances, we could be trying to find the optimal balance between, among other things, studies, work, family, and social obligations. To reduce the stressors that accumulate from them, one thing we try to do is find ways to be more productive. As a result of this demand, books, videos, and courses have been created to help us with just that. One recent contribution that has stood out for its quality is…
We have all experienced the pain of being treated unfairly. It could be that we’ve been overlooked in favor of someone less deserving in a romantic context. Maybe at work, we slaved hard on a project but someone who did almost nothing ends up receiving most of the credit. In either case, we may feel that our decision to not act selfishly costed us dearly. Incidents like these raise the question in every giving person’s mind: how can I…