I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is about two attitudes to life – achieving and relating. I don’t have anything against achievements but think that relating is a better attitude to our lives. I think that the attitude of life-as-achievement tends to exclude enjoyment of the journey [...]
This post was inspired by Ernst Cassirer’s An Essay on Man. (It was published in 1944 hence the use of ‘man’ for humanity.) A paragraph on Cassirer. If you have heard of Ernst Cassirer it will almost certainly be because of his four volume Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. This is serious academic philosophy – definitely [...]
Just a quick link to an excellent post by Chris Edgar. Chris distinguishes between self-love and narcissism. One excellent point that Chris makes is that Narcissus didn’t fall in love with himself but with his image. He points out that in many traditions self-love is the foundation of concern for others. It is a clearly [...]
Two studies on the power of thought. The first found that counselling is 32 times more effective than money at increasing happiness (there has been a bit of discussion about this in the blogosphere) – some of the responses are quite possibly evil I think. The second study found that thinking of a loved one [...]
I have a guest post on Marie’s Coming Out of the Trees blog. Marie’s blog is mostly her journal about recovering from child sexual abuse. This is a very important subject and Marie writes very well. However, if you are dealing with these issues yourself it may not be the time to read it, it [...]
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My second guest post for the week on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog is Small Steps are Small, But Over Time They Add Up. (You will note that they are both about half the usual length.) This was originally the lead in to my other post on responding to boredom (I thought that [...]
Hi Folks, Today I have a guest post on Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life. It is mostly a book announcement for How to Cure Boredom. However there is some useful stuff on what we can learn from our experience of boredom as well – it’s not just a book announcement. It’s called Getting Interested in [...]
Just a quick link to a great post by Chris Edgar. It’s about taking back your self-control from habits (you know when you’ve found yourself doing the habit before you realise – the cigarette is already alight and in your mouth, or you’re already in the middle of that argument again.) Good, practical advice and [...]
