Erik Brown

Thank you. Let me know when you hit chin up 3998, and I’ll turn on the recorder 😉.

I’ve always been a big fan of David Goggins. His book is amazing, the audio book is even better.

Agnes,

In addition to changing your thinking, try changing your language. Study the words you say everyday. The words you use can be describing the world around you, but it can also be creating the world around you.

I’m doing a little experiment. I found myself saying, “ I have to do x, y, and z”. I…

Maarten,

I’d agree with the assessment that humanity has always lived in a post-truth era. In particular, the media who claims to be the arbiter of truth has always been one to mislead.

The best examples I can give of this is one that’s not well known — well the facts aren’t exactly well known. The…

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.” — Thomas Jefferson

I can’t agree with you more. It’s damn near impossible to be objective. That’s why we must question often. Look at the hearings with the head of DOJ…

Quoting also enables you do a little less work. Let others speak for you. You’ll need to create less and add to your credibility by enlisting the help of those better informed. Good article!

Steven,

It’s interesting to look at language and compare it to the nature of games. When you look at it this way, it does make sense that human language could be incomprehensible to a machine, which is from a far different nature.

I remember working with an exacto knife (razor blade on a stick) and superglue as a kid. No one died in the process….at least that I know of. Very creative work on the fridge! You should send the pictures to Mattel or whatever company makes Barbie now a days.

It’s definitely worth posting there. It’s a bit random. Sometimes you get a big boost, other times not. Someone posted a story of mine there about a year ago and it got about 30,000 views over the course of a day. Some may say, “So what”. That boost got the story to the to the “Popular on Medium” list, then it got me lots of domestic traffic.

It’s amazing what can be extrapolated from something as simple as a nursery rhyme. The amount of history that one can walk through just investigating this idea is staggering. It can send you down a rabbit hole that’ll keep you busy for months. If you want to see another interesting nursery rhyme argument being fought in real time, check out Humpty…

Avantika,

Thanks for reading and commenting. Unfortunately, I did an updated version of this article and another publication picked it up. I would definitely be interested in being a writer for your pub though. I’m not sure how often I’d submit pieces, but there’s really no pub dedicated to martial arts. So when I did write…