Productivity

Most days, I feel completely lost in my own head. I wake up and feel like I’m stuck in a surreal bubble spirited away from reality and thrown into some kind of Kafkaesque nightmare. I know on an intellectual level that this isn’t actually the case, but that doesn’t make it feel any less depressing.

Life feels as if I’m floating around in a torrent of chaos and noise with no sense of which way is up or down, just letting the currents of time pull me wherever I’ll end up going.… Read the rest

Online classes revolutionized education by opening classrooms up to people of all walks of life who may not have been able to afford to attend either due to cost, flexibility, or locale. Online courses have many free options which can be as useful as a traditional university course from a learning perspective. Lately though, they’ve dropped off the map and seemingly stagnated.… Read the rest

The “Dark Night of the Soul” is a common concept in spirituality, but it can apply to many other aspects of life as well. In our modern society, our careers, our ambitions, and our hobbies have all become as much a part of our person as spirituality has been traditionally. Most forms of spirituality have some kind of answer or at least direction which is “right”, but what is right with a career when there are many choices in front of you, each one going a completely different way and excluding progress in another way?… Read the rest

The word “selfish” tends to have an extremely negative connotation. When you think of selfishness, you probably think of wanton indulgence at the expense of others, but that isn’t quite the whole picture. This isn’t to say it hasn’t earned its badge for most of its usage, but sometimes, you have to put yourself first.

Reframing What It Means To Be Selfish

Someone who takes and takes, and takes without ever giving back is selfish.… Read the rest