Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World
Yesterday, I wrote about the four types of temperaments as discussed in the Talmud. Today, we’ll look into the four types of students and how they stack up. “There are four types of students: a) One who grasps quickly and forgets quickly, his gain is offset by his loss; b) One who grasps slowly and
Today’s Mishna states: He used to say: if I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? This passage speaks to the importance of intrinsic motivation, meeting your obligations, and acknowledging the passing of time. Below is a summary of
My first week of Catholicism was fascinating. I really enjoy the combination of going to Mass everyday and performing the Ignatian Spiritual exercises. The former offers a communal setting where I can have an expert (the priest) interpret key Christian moral lessons, and the latter offers opportunities for deep reflection. Some thoughts when I look
Hi all, It has been quite a while since I’ve posted anything here. I’m not sure how much you missed the content but I apologize anyway. Some big events have been happening, not all of which rhyme with schmovid. The most significant one is that as of June 2020, I am now a dad! As
Some desires are (1) natural and necessary, others (2) natural but not necessary, still others (3) neither natural nor necessary but generated by senseless whims. – Epicurus, Vatican Aphorisms via The Art of Happiness To be a classical Epicurean is to become an expert on your wants and desires and only pursuing those that truly bring
This is a special guest post by new wife, Erica. I always bounce my own ideas for posts off of her before I publish them and she always has some valuable piece of insight that I wouldn’t have come up with on my own, so it’s always a treat to read her thoughts directly. As the
I finished watching the most recent season of House of Cards this past weekend. For those of you who are not addicted to the Netflix series, it is a show about Congressman Frank Underwood’s brutal climb to the presidency. He and his wife will do literally anything, including murder, to reach the top. Their ambition
A chef’s cancer diagnosis If you were diagnosed with stage IV squamous cell carcinoma-tongue cancer and the doctor told you your only chance of survival required undergoing a brutal surgery that would remove most of your neck, some of your jaw, and your tongue, would you consider it good luck or bad luck? What if,
The medieval farmer simply had no reason to adopt such a bizarre idea in the first place. Workers got up with the sun and slept at dusk, the lengths of their days varying with the seasons. There was no need to think of time as something abstract and separate from life: you milked the cows
When I was in NROTC in college, we were required to take a few courses in leadership and management. It taught us to think through about how we would address conflict, how to treat people with different personalities, how to gain creditability with subordinates, etc. What struck me as I read through the Tao Te