Imagine meeting your future self five or ten years from now. Picture them standing across from you: a little older, a little wiser. Would they thank you for the choices you’re making today, or would they wish you had shown up differently? This powerful question, “How can Current Me help Future Me?”, isn’t about guilt […]
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For a lot of people, understanding themselves often stops once they have made a list of likes and dislikes. This list of preferences can be handy, but it lacks depth. What I would encourage you to do is to go beyond just identifying preference and explore your capabilities and capacity. Try starting with these basic
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Temperance isn’t just a virtue, it can be a tool. Temperance has a lot of nuisance and meaning. For me it invokes thoughts of self-regulation, self-restraint, and discipline. When we think of temperance as a tool I think there is a natural tendency to see it as useful for controlling our physical desires, but I
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As we gather education, training, and experience we grow our knowledge, skills and abilities which results in expanded capabilities and increased capacity. This thought came to mind early this week and I think it is worth unpacking it a bit further. Education is a structured process of gaining knowledge, general skills (writing, math, speaking ect),
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The wise mind walks the middle path guided by logic on one side and intuition on the other. The Stoics often get judged and labeled as devoid of emotion. This couldn’t be further from the truth. They do however recognize that emotions must be regulated in order to harness their true power and benefit. The
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I love this question for a few reasons. First, the answer is typically a binary yes or no and that helps with clarity. Another reason is that the language of the questions is not seeking a subjective judgement of quality or morality. Perhaps my favorite reason is that we can use it to challenge our
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If you find yourself living at the mercy and whim of raging emotions this may be a sign you need to increase your capability and capacity to regulate your emotions. In the years that I have been studying philosophy I often see quippy snippets of wisdom that advocate for some form of emotional control or
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Focusing on the task at hand can feel overwhelming in a world of constant distraction and interruption. I think there is an inclination to blame modern distractions like phones, email, streaming, marketing, advertising, and every other external factor for our inability to stay on task or in the moment. What I’m about to say might
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Society and popular culture puts a lot of pressure on us to “be yourself.” There are a lot of presumptions that go into quippy catch phrases like this, not the least of which is that we have the slightest idea of what we want ourselves to be. Thankfully, we have the capability and capacity to
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Seek first to understand. This is one of my favorite concepts because it implies gaining clarity by taking action. The first thing that comes to mind when I think about the concept of “seeking” is a RADAR system that used to cause me a lot of headaches when I was a young Airman. As a
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