The “OG” sceptical notion of ataraxia, developed by early Greek philosophers — the Stoics, like Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus — may be the remedy here…
And, without those truly exceptional leaders — who are willing to get their hands dirty; to do some of the ‘grunt work,’ themselves — it is unlikely that a sense of kinship will be fostered among teammates or…
Phee Y. — I can fully empathize with your experiences with education, the church and the “learning curve.”
You made a comment about “normal” schooling, so I thought you might be interested in reading what I recently wrote (ranted is probably a more fitting word) regarding my qualms and struggles in the “traditional” public…
“…we are all [our own] most unreliable narrators…”
I am inclined to cite (or make general reference to) the Cartesian proposition that our individual, subjective perceptions of the external world are all ‘inaccurate’ as all…