Lincoln was like more than a few of us whose pets have run of the house these days: He also left to those friends the dog’s favorite horsehair sofa on which to nap, as well as a long, specific list of rules for how Fido was to be treated during his waking hours. For example, …
Abraham Lincoln’s respect for life extended from humanity to all creatures Read More »
from a Huffpost interview: Diamandis: Yes, we have ISIS. But the data overwhelmingly suggests the future I’ve been describing. One big problem is that the news media has a grip on our imagination. The fundamental function of the news media is to deliver every piece of negative news to my living room in high definition …
Peter Diamandis’ new book, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World Read More »
The following is an excerpt from Freud: Great Thinkers on Modern Life, a new series published by The School of Life. In this particular chapter, author Bret Kahr uses Freud’s writings to make a case for the value and effective methods of forgetting the past. As a psychotherapist, I spend a great deal of my …
A related distinction is between what’s called deep reading (that time-consuming process involving reasoning skills and reflection) and hyper reading (a term developed in the late 1990s). In How We Think, Katherine Hayles defines hyper reading as “a strategic response to an information-intensive environment, aiming to conserve attention by quickly identifying relevant information, so that …
Why Reading On A Screen Is Bad For Critical Thinking Read More »
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In a section of his 1843 masterwork Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (public library), which also gave us Kierkegaard on our greatest source of unhappiness, the Danish philosopher defines boredom as a sense of emptiness and examines it not as an absence of stimulation but as an absence of meaning — an idea that also …
“The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.” Read More »