Beating the Odds: Winning in Life When You Are Expected to Lose
If I had played by the rules, listened to the oddsmakers in my life, and folded my hand when everyone said I was going to lose, I wouldn’t be where I am right now.
If I had played by the rules, listened to the oddsmakers in my life, and folded my hand when everyone said I was going to lose, I wouldn’t be where I am right now.
The word skeptic conjures a host of images. A dour atheist shitting on the miracles and mysteries of the world. A perpetual party pooper that seeks to constantly rain on life’s parade with a shit storm of exposition about why what you believe is wrong, all the while asserting that what they believe is right.
If we are to come to reason well in our lives – come to reason and walk away with something resembling our truth –
For part 2 of my post on the philosophy of personal development, I want to focus on 3 more modern, influential philosophers that have offered a lot in the way of personal development fodder.
All too often in the world of personal development we get lost in the shiny, new solutions to the oldest problems.
What can we really know about romantic love? It is like a whirlwind sometimes; defying reason and physics, sweeping us up in its storm and placing us somewhere far from where we began.
Gather around kids, I have a tale to tell; about the day that philosophy decided to rebel… We have a problem.
How often have you paged through the whole of your life and considered the difference a few smalls changes could have made;
Living is a giving thing. The more we pour ourselves into the world the more we get from the experience of life.