I want to write something meaningful. But what does that mean, exactly? My first attempt to articulate what that means is that I want to write something that comes from the heart. By “heart” I mean that I want to write something that taps into my emotions. When I write…

I randomly came across this article and immediately felt the experience of synchronicity. I've been thinking about how people usually resort to logical fallacies like ad hominem and appeal to authority in their essays and conversations online. Character assassination and blatant misrepresentation of positions and statements through de-contextualizing and straw…

You articulated something that I knew implicitly but never really had the chance to formulate. If you tell someone to "stop being judgmental", you are contradicting the very moral principle you are telling that person to practice. I would like to meditate on what you said here: "Civility is, and…

For a long time, the blank white screen that appeared after clicking “Write a story” scared me. It wasn’t always like this. I’ve mentioned this before in my past stories, but when I first started writing I wrote without caring about who would read my writing or how I would be perceived by readers. When people started following and reading, I was ecstatic. I was happy that people were resonating with my…

Hi Timothy! I'm glad you found my story useful. I'll be looking out for your stories! (No pressure :) ) And don't worry about "not being original" - if anything, creatives are all copying from each other and seldom make anything truly original. When we're starting our creative projects, we…

Hi Joshua, Thanks for reading and for sharing your thoughts! I've followed Dr. Peterson very closely since his rise to fame, and never have I heard him claim that his ideas were original - he has always pointed to his own mentors and given them credit where credit was due…

There is an ancient alchemical dictum, In Sterquilinis Invenitur, which translates into “in filth it will be found”. I believe Carl Jung initially meditated on this idea, which was later revisited by Jordan Peterson in his book Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life. For the modern person, we may…

In Richard Carlson’s book, Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff… and It’s All Small Stuff, there was a rule that specifically caught my eye. Over the past few years, I’ve been obsessed in a pursuit to learn what it means to live a good life. I’ve read many self-help books and…

The hopeless romantic in me suggests that this is true. But to indulge in it would most likely leave me disillusioned, bitter, and resentful. We like entertaining stories about the addict, the alcoholic, the unlawful individual, the underdog — people who begin their journeys at rock bottom and begin a…