Monthly Archives: September 2019

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius Conflicts, failures and losses at times seem to conspire to ruin us. Yet, as Marcus Aurelius observed nearly two millennia ago, [...]

Being uncertain about the answer to the riddle below may be a pleasant reward-anticipating feeling when you know this will be revealed, but will turn into frustration if the answer is missing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-QtOcZHcOo Curiosity, the emotion that moved the cat. I wrote a little bit about how my own insatiable curiosity kept me alive. New parents learn [...]