I finished Prince Harry’s book “Spare” and was impressed by it in several ways. One of the things I was impressed with was his apparent honesty about his own mental health and how he felt about the events that took place in his life. It has caused me to question…
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Small Chapters: The value of focusing on factlets and keeping content direct and to the point.
I have been listening to the audiobook written by Prince Harry entitled “Spare”. I am impressed by one aspect of this book and that is how brief the chapters are. Each chapter deals with one topic. The chapters don’t go on and on about a topic but deliver a short…
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The Billion Dollar Plague of Misinformation and the Addiction to Sensationalism through Conspiracy Theories
Disclaimer: I don’t know what the truth is. However, I feel like I know what the truth is. I trust my instincts. I trust the sense of right and wrong that was taught to me during my childhood years. It may have been a protective type of fairy tale truth…
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War: What has it ever accomplished?
War: What has it ever accomplished? When you consider the breadth of history from as far back as the Bible goes to the present day it is apparent that “…there will always be wars and rumors of wars”. For all the brilliance of the human mind, this fact seems to…
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Outsmarting God: The Tangled Web of Enlightenment and The Mind
Outsmarting God and the tangled web of enlightenment. It is all a mental exercise, a kind of spiritual searching that causes confusion and leads to a certain kind of insanity. I am especially prone to overthinking things. People always say how I “live in my head” too much. I agree…
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Go to work. Live your life.
Go to work and live your life. The topic of work-life balance is a big one and I believe one of the most important things that a person has to come to grips with in order to have a truly ‘happy’ life. When things get out of balance it is…
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Joining Groups: It is good to join things…as long as they are linked to a constructive purpose.
I have always been very cautious about joining ‘things’. The problem I have with joining things is that groups want you on their agenda and want you to agree with their philosophy on any given matter. Although I recognize the importance of becoming a part of groups can enhance life’s…
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Lasting Value: The value of having lived.
Lasting Value: The value of having lived Being another one of my early morning writings this topic came to me while listening to a Podcast about Beethoven and his 3rd Symphony which asked the question, “What does music mean?”. The question is something I have often pondered and the result…
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Popular and Elite Art: What is good?
Popular makes a lot of money because you have more people agreeing that something is good. But, does “popular” mean that something is actually good? Well, it certainly doesn’t mean it is bad. It just means that a lot of people agree on something. It may or may not have…
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Stress: A rejection of the “is”ness of life.
I have always been one to look to the horizon. I tend to look to the future for something to look forward to or looking back and longing for it to return and realizing that both are nothing but mental tricks. I can’t remember a time in the past that…