Rationality

I’m running late? Apples are red? The sky is falling? Reading these excuses to cut in line, they seem like unconvincing and frankly odd methods to skip the cue — but interestingly, despite some of them making little sense, they all have relatively similar success rates. …

And how to defend yourself against them. — Yes, they can hurt you The first mistake we make is to think that we cannot be hurt by our interactions online. After all, they are two separate worlds: the real one, where we live under our real name and interact with our friends and families, and the one behind our computer screen. In it…

what’s going on when people get in their own way? — Years ago in reading, I encountered the distinction between two families of fools and two types of foolishness. I’ve invoked that easily remembered and vivid distinction by way of explanation in many conversations down the years, and have puzzled about precisely what goes wrong with the winter fool — how…

One of the most vexing writings of Mark Fisher which has haunted me now for a period of years, is a single short blogpost from his k-punk blog dated to February 17, 2005, entitled: WE DOGMATISTS (link). It is a bizarre mix of damning wisdom, unhinged madness, and utter confusion…

How to know if your fear is irrational Join my free group coaching program for confidence and integrity here…youtube.com I know from experience, it can be really difficult to figure out whether your fear is rational or irrational. You know, whether you’re right to be afraid of this thing or if it’s just your insecurities and trauma and bullshit coming up. And one way to figure this out, is…

You gotta love Steven Pinker. He puts such high polish on the gruesome aspects of our world; he makes me believe there’s hope. For those of us who may not be familiar, Steven Pinker is a psychology professor at Harvard whose research focuses on language, cognition, and social relations. He’s…

If I am a rational being as I suppose, why do I do the things I despise so passionately and with little remorse? Isn’t it a fallacy that I may desire the higher self yet the lower self has corrupted the higher human? My animal instincts are provoked every time…

The need for better, more critical thinking — Rational thinking is a vital aspect of being human. At least it’s vital to being a productive human. Unfortunately, there’s less and less critical thinking in our world today. And it may be our undoing. It’s easy of course to ponder this in the abstract. Let’s make it personal. Are…

Getting out of the state of ‘Emotional Irrationality’ — What are difficult times? Has it ever been that you are in the state of ‘emotional irrationality’? For example, at office you think you are not performing on par with others, but you don’t have any evidence for it. Or you are consistently wondering what the world thinks of you? Or sometimes you are…