For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
Note: I must be rusty. I sent out a truncated version of this article yesterday. Apologies. Here’s the whole article. I’ve been writing as much as ever, but mostly just posting articles at Psychology Today. I’m going to start sending regularly through MRD again. Best, Jeremy I collect role models, sometimes for a specific reason. […]
Life is a white-knuckle ride for us knucklehead genius humans, who can foresee the future like no other creature can, but so ambiguously that we can never tell whether we’re doing the right thing. We humans depend upon affirmation. It’s a staple like air, water, food and sleep. We may not notice that we depend on […]
Truth is, I’ve been feeling like a hypocrite. I write a lot about the trouble people cause by getting on their high horse quickly and dismounting slowly. Lately I’ve witnessed myself do just that, for example lurching toward high-horse “how dare you?!” responses to anyone who gets in my way, even just in traffic. That […]
Imagine the bottom falling out at the end of your lifelong career, discovering that the detailed knowledge you spent decades mastering was actually a sham. What you thought was a subtle science of cause and effect with all sorts of cerebral details was in fact, on the whole a placebo effect. You wasted your life learning […]
Most people intuit that there’s a higher power, some significant force whether Godly or simply spiritual that made and moves us. They intuit a two tier-system, us down below through our good deeds representing the higher power’s significant goodness. This is a comforting intuition. Non-believers claim that comfort is its only virtue. To them, science proves […]
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