Whispers of greatness Recently, ever increasingly, in questions asked, open LinkedIn tabs, and an intangible, broad malaise—taut strings that come down from the sky, tangled, untraceable, thin white thread that puppeteers us to work ever harder, to go to HL for the tenth time this week, that snakes its way through our skin, slithering along […]
Philosophy
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How stand I, then, That have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon […]
Free Will, Faith, and a Journey to India
Free Will Here’s a question for you: can you point to anything in your life, any singular thing you’ve done or accomplished, that is your own doing? The question, though at first glance a bit bizarre, stems from a stream of questions I have asked and continue to ask myself. The first of this stream […]
Stoicism in the Modern Day
The ancient philosophy of Stoicism still has a place in the modern day. Stoicism is making a comeback. In recent years, there has been a rise in self-help books and blogs based on stoicism such as “Stoicism Today”, “How to Be a Stoic”, “Daily Stoic” and “Traditional Stoicism”. These books and blogs market stoicism as […]