Sports: Learning to Quit Gracefully
There is a tendency to grasp tighter as something slips away: fight harder to retain what was. Another approach to …
fear
clockwork man: time uses us
Since the invention of the clock, time can be wasted, which converts time into a resource to be controlled and …
Optimization from fear
What portion of our pursuits are motivated by anxiety and fear?Is our level of optimization equal to our stress? If …
Finding yourself
Your identity is your form, which is an act. To be “you” is to behave as people imagine you should, …
Calm amidst rage: detached observation
You can be fine, even happy, amid anxiety and outrage. These feelings come over us, but we can watch them …
Abundance of Life
Bataille discusses the excessiveness of the general (solar) economy in nature, yet we often apply a scarcity mindset: "I only …
Approach/Retreat: We frustrate ourselves
To desire is to want something beyond you, and in approaching it your psychology dredges forth all the pains of wanting and …