When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. — Viktor Frankl Last week, we talked about what it means (scientifically) to lead a meaningful life. And this week, I promised to discuss how (scientifically) to lead a meaningful life. And because one of the ways I find meaning…
He who asks a question feels a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question is a fool forever. – Chinese Proverb Growing up, I always hated when teachers said, “There’s no such thing as a stupid question .” Clearly those teachers hadn’t been around for the high school physics class when I…
Man is by nature a social animal…Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. — Aristotle I made the following brazen claim to someone today: “Give me anything about life, and I will apply…
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. — BF Skinner (a famous psychologist) Aren’t you just the greatest? Or rather, if you’ve read my last two posts, don’t you just think you’re the greatest? For as I have…