What’s wrong with doing things for fun?
When you get older you tend to become more "serious" and stop doing things for fun. Why? What's wrong with doing things for fun? I take another look at how 'fun' can be a huge drive for potential.
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Hiram Crespo on The Pursuit of Happiness, Epicurean Philosophy, and Changing Your Mindset
Hiram Crespo is author of Tending the Epicurean Garden and in this episode of Shakers & Doers podcast he shares his insight of the pursuit of happiness, Epicurean philosophy and changing mindsets.
Which road?
Which road should you take? To be happy with what you have and to enjoy life, or to make change despite of all action being futile?
Assumptions: How to test and destroy them
What knowledge do you assume you, or others know? What assumptions do you have that may be holding you back? Dr Ann Clarke explains how the assumption of knowledge is the death of curiosity. Test and destroy it.
In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky
There are some books where half of it is gobbledegook, and the other half is pure genius. In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky…
John Middleton Murry on The Price of Leadership
John Middleton Murry was a prolific writer and intellectual. So why did he call for a return to early 19th Century Christian society?
Magic Moments: What they are and how to get them
'Have you ever had that moment,' my Aunt Perrie asked as she looked toward the Earth's fold, 'where everything comes together, it's all so beautiful,…
If artificial intelligence came to be, what would it think?
What shall a machine think when artificial intelligence comes to be? Wipe out humanity, make us slaves, or simply be? I put forth an argument for why the machine may be more spiritual than we believe it is capable of.
Do we just work to survive and play, then die?
Read the messages below and see if any of it, maybe just one sentence or the frustration between the lines, rings true for you too:…