by Jeremy Ostler | Nov 12, 2020 | Personal Development
How do you see yourself? And is what you see . . . true? Indeed, who are you? And how can you know it? Who we are and who we think we are can be two very different things. For example, you may be capable of rising early in the morning, but you may not think you are...
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 | How To, Personal Development
“Who are you?” I believe it’s a question we should ask ourselves regularly. Importantly, we should follow it up with “Who were you yesterday?” I like this little exercise because it impresses on the mind the fact that if you are the same person today that you were...
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 | Nov 16, 2019 | Personal Development
When everything is going right, we think we see things as they are. It is only when things go wrong that we are awakened to just how complex the world really is. But it isn’t the complexity of life that unnerves us. It is our obliviousness of the fact. It is the fact...
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