Two Ways to Be Fooled: Believing Lies and Rejecting Truth
Deception almost never announces itself, because it does not always arrive wearing falsehoods or obvious errors. Sometimes, it…
The Illusion of Knowledge And The End of Learning
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus Learning does…
The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living – Socrates
Socrates’ declaration, “The unexamined life is not worth living,” is more than a philosophical slogan; it is a…
Stop Before It Costs You More: The Self-Development Lesson of Riding The Wrong Train
There is a proverb that is often attributed to Japanese wisdom, that goes like this: “If you get…
The Illusion of Competence: How the Dunning-Kruger Effect Blinds Us
There is a strange paradox in human thinking: The people who know the least too many times feel…
Confirmation Bias: To See Clearly, You Must Look Beyond What Confirms You
Obviously we all like to believe that we are rational, clear thinkers; that our decisions are guided by…
Blame-Shifting Logic: The Deception of the Appeal to Hypocrisy Fallacy
Take a minute to remember an argument in the past or a debate where one person calls out…
The Strawman Fallacy: How We Misrepresent Others (and Let Others Misrepresent Us)
Obviously I am sure we can agree that we live in an age of endless arguments, both online…
It May Feel Hard, But Look How Easy You’ve Had It: Gratitude, Help, and The Grace of Support
My dearest readers, I am sure you know that life has a way of making us feel like…
The Law of Humility: Seeing Yourself Without the Distortion of Ego
Baruch Spinoza once wrote, “Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.” It is…