Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – M. Kathleen Casey Pain—what an unpleasant sensation. If happiness is the ultimate good, then pain is the ultimate bad. However, if pain really is this unequivocally negative experience, why do we even have it? From an evolutionary standpoint, pain serves to remind us something’s wrong. Physically speaking, it alerts…
Nearly all men can withstand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln. Camping in the woods with friends is fun. Camping on a nest of your dirty clothes in the airport is not. But thanks to Mother Nature’s sudden fascination with lightning, I got to experience the…
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. — H. L. Mencken What if the fate of the United States’ geopolitical interactions could be determined by the weight of a dead ox? All right. You’ve think I’ve lost it. The pressures of grad school, the excess of coffee, the lack of sunlight…
Will is character in action. — William McDougall Us here at jaketeeny.com are dedicated to three things above all else: truth, justice, peace, humility, entertainment, psychology, philosophy, and the general promulgation of my amazingness. Being able to count accurately is not one of them. Today, I am thus sidelining my pride and publishing a correction…
Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world. Today I am wise and try to change myself. – Rumi If I were to join a religion, I would be a disciple of Time. Both a stalwart monk and a proselytizing minister, a believer and a preacher of those twelve numbers and their ever-circulating…
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde If I told you to stop reading this blog post right now, could you do it? I mean you already followed one link or another to get here. You intentionally wanted to read what I had to say….