Self Improvement

Self-Esteem and Pride

If you want to kill a great idea, make sure that it gets introduced into our public schools. Bloom’s Taxonomy has been thoroughly caricaturized and practically discredited by the the way it was almost completely misunderstood and misused by our public schools (since the top is most…

No Regrets

Aphorism 341 — from Nietzsche’s “The Joyful Wisdom”

The greatest weight. — What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times…

It’s OK to be Average

Everyone should strive for excellence.

To strive for excellence, though, means the real possibility of failure. It means the real possibility of you learning that the very best you can do is average. It might even mean the real possibility of learning that the very…

The Lies We Present to Others

The Potemkin Village has been personalized — we present a false front to hide our inner poverty. Like the Soviet Union, though, we are headed for certain collapse.

This false front goes beyond the fact that people act differently depending on what…