philosophy
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At a crossroads
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2 min read
Waiting for confirmation begets a wish washy answer. The solution is never what you want to hear. Fence-sitters are the first ones to capitulate to the doubting disease. Debate decreases their likeliness of action. What if instead of a tip-toe in, we pursued our beliefs despite our ambivalence. As Eleanor Roosevelt once implored us, “Be…
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Variables of reason
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1 min read
The riddle of life requires that we turn the page with equal uncertainty and confidence. By peeking into to the future, we dive into the uncomfortable experiment of digging up our past. The vacillation opens up the floodgates to creativity. Yielding to a strange loop, we can finally ignore the feeling of being left behind.…
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Placebos: the lies we make true
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1 min read
What the mind believes, the body can achieve. Look no further than a placebo who’s sole power is in its real effects. If it’s broken, only then do you fix it. But placebos work just as an app’s colors dupe the brain into submission. The slightest taste of sugar helps the medicine go down. The…
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The mind is a kite
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1 min read
Think about a purple cow, a rainbow-striped zebra, or a dog driving a pick-up truck. Now try to jettison those images from your mind. Mull over why you’re happy and you may cease feeling so. The process of getting stuck and unstuck originates from the same internal wiring. The unexpected unwanted variable always stings with…
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Prime the pump of knowlege
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1 min read
Curiosity doesn’t come out of nowhere. It is instilled through tidbits of knowledge. No kid’s going to pick up crayons and draw without first seeing how they’re used. Humans need a range of information in order to prime the interested pump. After an initial introduction, the rest is up to them to follow up on…
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Philosophy lacks an answer
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1 min read
The point of philosophy is to raise more questions than provide answers. The subject is a fodder for thinking. Despite its opacity, philosophy is measurable. It’s an instrument for producing ideas in a sea of sameness. It bubbles with countless abstractions to raise clarity in the gray spaces. Abstraction is essentially the process of hiding…
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The struggle is reassuring
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1 min read
Vulnerability and happiness, pain and weakness. You can’t possibly expect any benefits without the paradoxes of input and output. It’s as if people expect to play to the tune of emotion, unwilling to endure the challenges that get them there. The ups and downs should be reassuring. We evolve because we must struggle. Without it,…
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Beyond the inner roommate
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1 min read
Balancing logic and creativity, the left brain melds into the right. The two hemispheres work as a whole, never forfeiting the childlike imagination nor the reality of execution. The inner roommate of course, prefers one over the other. We all know accountants who feel like they can never be marketers and vice versa. They wrongly…
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The growing block theory of time
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1 min read
Time is simply blocks or slices of reality, added on top of one another. Writes C. D. Broad’s in his theory of time in 1923: […] such a theory as this accepts the reality of the present and the past, but holds that the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present…
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Intensely watched, intensely remembered
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1 min read
Intensely watched, intensely remembered. It’s not the trouble-free we ought to pursue. It’s the challenge of a good idea. Instead of pushing through the messy middle, we dash to the nearest exit: answering another useless email. It’s the distractions that make us dumber. Like a blob of mercury, we are mentally stoned. The immediate response…
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Inconvenient truths
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1 min read
We live in a world where self-checkout is more painful than regular checkout, where Instagrammers risk their lives for the perfect pic, and where people hide behind their avatars to become trolls. Sure, a quick google yields all the answers. But the price for the latest convention is reduced comprehension. As soon as we hide,…
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You wield the paintbrush
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1 min read
The easiest way to get the failure out of your system is to bomb a few times so there’s less emotional baggage in the next endeavor. If your struggles persists and you can’t successfully mock the channels of other people, make your own. There’s a long-tail out there for everybody. Keep in mind that you…