I am working on a paper of sorts to be submitted to an academic journal.  The paper is about Accepting one’s beatings.  In the process of writing this paper I started thinking of a section of a book by Antonie de St. Exupery called, The Wisdom of The Sands. In...

The Father of General Semantics, Alfred Korzybski, once offered advice for pursuing happiness.  Basically, happiness is having minimum expectations while maintaining maximum effort/motivation to one’s projects.  See, he felt that people with high expectations...

…this week I faced a major fear: physical pain.  I’ve been struggling to become more comfortable with the sensation of tension.  You know, awkward silences, longer than usual eye contact, sexual tension, or simply just the feeling of judgement.   I set out...