Many years ago, I used to not stand spending even a minute alone: I was always hanging out with friends, studying or working in groups, binge watching tv shows, completely immersing myself in a constant stream of stimulus coming from the external world. I even used to judge people who had lunch alone or sit …
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The Encounter With The Snake
Here you are, born on this planet, with a set of genes, a citizenship, parents or caregivers, and an initial environment that you had nothing to do with. You are born with a set of predispositions, one of which is to seek pleasure and avoid pain. You are hard-wired for it: Seeking pleasure is a …
How Responsibility Opens Up The Doors Of Freedom
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents Responsibility is one of these concepts that we think we know and understand well, but we usually don’t. Far too often we just associate responsibility with duty, with a role that …
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Freedom is not to escape living in a prison, but it’s to choose your own prison
Many years ago, I used to see the word “Responsibility” as a negative term, as something to avoid, because it involved work, or having to answer to someone, and I wanted to be free of all this, free of all responsibilities, and like in an utopic world, live life intensely while not caring about anything, …
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How to Fall out of Romantic Love & Fall in Companionate Love
We are often told that successful interpersonal relationships are one of the most important aspect of one’s life and the biggest source of happiness for human beings. Even though one can argue against this claim and enumerate countless of other sources of meaning and happiness in one’s life, human relationships can still greatly affect us, …
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What Do You Truly Care About in Life?
We’ve previously made the case that the current world crisis could be a perfect opportunity for you to spend some time getting to know yourself, in order to live the life that you truly want. We’ve laid out the “When”, “Why”, and “What” of Self-Knowledge and Values. You’ve guessed it, It’s now time to go …
Self-Knowledge in a time of Pandemic
Covid-19 is everywhere, Governments are enforcing lock-downs (or Shelter-in-Place depending on where you live) to contain the spread of the virus, we all know the story.But have you ever wondered why […]