by Jeremy Ostler | Mar 30, 2020 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Relationships
Fear. But mostly, fear others. Tragically, that’s what many of us were taught to do by just about every adult in our lives. Fear what others think of you. Fear what they say about you. And especially, fear what they might do to you if you refuse to be who they want...
by Jeremy Ostler | Mar 20, 2020 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Relationships, Uncategorized
Love may be the greatest force for good in the world. But trust makes the world go round. In fact, without trust, love would be little more than an afterthought. We wouldn’t have the emotional bandwidth to concern ourselves with such a luxury. Our first order of...
by Jeremy Ostler | Mar 17, 2020 | Culture, Personal Development
Writing in the National Review, Kevin D. Williamson describes certain technical difficulties that result from abandoning moral language for clinical language: Some terms, such as “narcissist,” straddle the line between medicine and pop culture. We love to engage in...
by Jeremy Ostler | Jan 23, 2020 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Religion
Time is merciless. It passes regardless of what we want or need. And the fact that there are no pauses—not even to catch our breath when we are figuratively (sometimes literally) drowning—can make us feel like life is specifically designed to kill us. And it is. None...
by Jeremy Ostler | Aug 2, 2019 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Relationships
Thinking critically is necessary to prevent our individual and collective confidence from soaring unjustifiably to dangerous heights. Of course, to think critically, humility is required. Absent humility, we wouldn’t have the good sense to question the accuracy of our...
by Jeremy Ostler | Aug 1, 2019 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Relationships
“Most of us have two lives: the life we live and the un-lived life within us. Between the two stands resistance.” ~Steven Pressfield It’s time to upgrade your life. You know it, and I know it. But how? How do you upgrade your life when every past effort seems to have...
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