Do You Have Regrets?
Something close to a position of ‘no regrets’ — making a choice and living with the consequences — is easy to adopt for me. But is an absolute ‘no regrets’ policy too close to callousness?
BlogsInMind.com Archive, Page 9
Archived Posts from the blog ‘Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life’.
Small Steps are Small, But Over Time They Add Up
The small ways we waste our lives can really add up. But so too can the small positive changes we make. Are small changes, made every day, a good way to achieve radical change over time?
Getting Interested in Boredom
With his new e-book on the topic just out, Evan Hadkins asks: can your own boredom actually be interesting, and what can we learn by paying attention to our boredom?
Creating and Receiving Ourselves
How else can I make sense of part of my experience except to say that I discover myself, or that there is an aspect of me that simply is?
A Good Play Ethic
I don’t wish to defend laziness but rather to speak in favour of play. Play has a lightheartedness that the work ethic lacks.
Bringing Creativity to Life
It seems to me that while creativity means change, not all change is creative.
Learning to Be Ourselves
How I eat at home now is quite different to how I ate when I was young. And yet, I don’t have a sense that my younger self wasn’t me — quite the opposite. The story of my learning which foods I like is “my” story.