Deep within the human spirit is this niggling thought that maybe someday you might die, and when you do someone will care enough to wonder how you lived. Keeping a journal or a diary is a natural result. But if you don't journal it doesn't mean you're any less human; it just means you're missing a really good opportunity to become more human.
Read moreOn Recovering the Art of Reading
Reading is a dying art, and that is not a good thing. Books are shelved while technology is worshipped. We have apps for everything, and if we could, we'd even turn over our reading and studying to apps themselves. But the more we outsource the disciplines necessary to nurture the human spirit, the further we fall from glory.
Read moreLearning to Think 1: Reclaiming Your Mind from The Google
Most people hate to be alone, they hate quietness and stillness, and most of all, they hate to think. There never was a person born who didn't hate the thought of deep thinking. But, as great minds soon find out, it is extremely rewarding.
Read moreLessons from Sherlock Holmes on How to Think, or The Mind Palace
We need people who can think their way out of a paper bag. Religion has been accused (and most of the time, rightly so) of giving brain-dead people lies couched in pleasing rhetoric. But that is not the sole fault of religion, that is the fault of evil people using religion to their gain.
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