Disagreeing with people is about what you feel, not what you think. Don’t focus on what you’re arguing about, but why you are arguing. Don’t Try and Win “You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose…

A journey from nothing, back to something again. We can only be aware of external physical reality using our minds, so how can we be sure that anything other than our minds and thoughts exist? …

If you feel like your life is lacking in purpose, pick a new character in the videogame of life to bring that sense of meaning back. In videogames, you often get to design a character: how you are going to look, what special skills you are going to have and…

A Model For Thinking About Stable Relationships In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with. (Charles M. Schulz) Life is a rickety bridge. When it is a sunny, calm day the bridge is easy and pleasant to walk across. You might stumble occasionally (it is rickety…

A Practical Guide To Maintaining Contentment The Theory Imagine a temple. You’re sitting in the middle. It’s cool and calm. A heavy white stone roof is above your head. Supporting that roof are a number of pillars. This is contentment, this is calm, this is a feeling of wellbeing. To…

A Short Story Jimmy felt a bit sick. He stared out of the stained train window and willed himself to cheer up. But it was tough being an artist. Seven years old and still unpublished, he thought. What if it doesn’t get better? He opened a bag of Smarties and…

Why you should be more humble about your opinions. In 2015 there was a general election in the United Kingdom. For the first time, most of my Facebook ‘friends’ and I were suddenly old enough to vote. The omnipresent social media…

The powerful and universal message behind the popular film. Warning, spoilers ahead Like most nice things that get popular, after a few weeks of buzzing praise, La La Land found itself receiving a torrent of abuse. This was the inevitable result of people flocking to the cinema expecting to see…

Did you have it better when you were a kid? I think this will sound familiar: You are sweating and wheezing over an assignment that’s due in the morning and your mind wanders back to the beauty of childhood. You start to remember the days of frolicking in the fields…