Devil’s Advocate: Can Your Beliefs Survive This Opponent?
Most of us go through life under the impression that our beliefs, values, and worldviews are completely unshakeable.…
Would You Plug In? What Robert Nozick’s Famous Experiment Reveals About our Desires
Imagine a flawless, radiant laboratory, and inside is a revolutionary device. The scientists running it present you with…
More Dangerous Than Evil: The High Cost of Intelligent Stupidity
So many of us possess a deeply cinematic understanding of destruction. When we think about the forces that…
The Foot-in-the-Door Trap: When Does a Small Ask Become Too Much?
It always starts with something completely reasonable. From the video I just saw, the speaker said let us…
“It’s Not That Deep” The Most Dangerous Lie We Tell Our Souls
Today, so many of us have developed a highly sophisticated vocabulary for our own compromise. In today’s culture…
The Tyranny of Small Decisions: The Dangerous Power of the “Just This Once” Mindset
I think it is a reasonable thing to say that: Almost nobody ever wakes up one morning and…
Don’t Wrestle Like a Pig: Knowing When to Stand Your Ground and When to Walk
Some people are totally obsessed with having the last word. From the comment sections of social media to…
Stop Suffering! The Urgent Case for Getting Your Act Together
I know many of us like to tell ourselves that we are fine. We tell our friends, “It…
Cost of Aimlessness: Why Your Brain Needs a Goal to Stay Sane
We too often than not think of freedom as the ultimate prize, the ability to do anything, go…
Timing is a Skill: Why You Need Phronesis to Recognize Your Kairos
For some of us, we like to keep a track of time; we track it with atomic precision…