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Aristotle's Happiness: Eudemonic Being
The Ancient Greeks had a different conceptual understanding of happiness than we do today. Aristotle (384-322 BCE) focused at length on...
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Feb 18, 202013 min read


Motivation
Motivation can be used as a tool, a self-guiding system towards a challenging or a perceived impossible/ unachievable goal. I can place...
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Feb 13, 20181 min read


Emotions
Emotions are a very important aspect of our being and what it means to be human. We live for the positive emotions of joy, ecstasy, and...
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Feb 11, 20184 min read


I(s)=S(i)
There is a relationship between my conscious interpretation of my current self and also the present self's interpretation of...
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Feb 10, 20181 min read


Meta-Self
The self is like a piece of a pie grapth whereas the meta-self is the whole pie graph itself. The meta-self is analgous to god or the...
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Feb 10, 20182 min read


Self-Mastery
"The chain is only as strong as its weakest link" Thomas Reid, Intellectual Powers of Man (pg 377) Self-Mastery is our ability to...
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Feb 10, 20182 min read


Inverting Trauma
Our being is fundamentally composed of our experiences. When we have experiences that occur that are negative, either in our out of our...
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Feb 10, 20182 min read


Bias and Heuristics
Dual Processing theory suggests that we have fast paced thinking and slow deliberate thinking. The fast paced thinking, system 1, relies...
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Feb 10, 201823 min read


The Agent
The Agent is the term I use to designate the state of sound mindedness when we are aware of our biases and engaged in training to respond...
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Feb 10, 20183 min read


Training and Learning
Our brain has a powerful capacity to learn new information and develop new skills through training. With the right focus and effort,...
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Feb 10, 20185 min read


The Mind
The mind is our control over and experience of our cognitive faculties of thinking, feeling, memory, perception, consciousness, judgment,...
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Feb 10, 20183 min read


Self-Awareness
One of our greatest assets is self-awareness. Our ability to have a third person perspective on our self allows us to control and modify...
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Feb 10, 201818 min read


Unity of Self
The brain works most effectively when all regions are working in harmony with each other. This can be quite a challenge for the brain is...
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Feb 7, 20186 min read


Self-Love
Self-love has to do with taking actions towards things that are inherently good for one's well-being. To love oneself is to treat our...
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Feb 7, 20185 min read
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