Eric Scheske

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Flourishing

Flourishing

If you want to flourish, you need to be connected to full reality. If you want to be connected to full reality, you need to be connected to the Tao. If you want to be connected to the Tao, you need your right hemisphere to reclaim its rightful role as the master.

Botch Your New Year's Resolutions Already? Maybe Try a Few of These Winter Resolutions

Botch Your New Year's Resolutions Already? Maybe Try a Few of These Winter Resolutions

"New year" means "new soul." That's what British writer G.K. Chesterton once observed. Many of us, though, already feel like we've soiled our souls with botched New Year's resolutions. And the rest of us will feel pretty soiled soon

23 Truths

23 Truths

Gurwinder at The Prism (Substack)

Feeling Hurried? Blame Netflix

Feeling Hurried? Blame Netflix

One quality about modern life that no one denies: it's rushed. It's hurried. Frenzied. No one feels like they have enough time. There's a simple explanation: Modern life is fun. It's interesting. Tons of worthy things grab our attention. The adjective "

Read Your Way Out of Left-Hemisphere Hegemony

Read Your Way Out of Left-Hemisphere Hegemony

Should You Try Writing Poetry?

Should You Try Writing Poetry?

Glenn Arbery at The Imaginative Conservative

Against Human Flourishing?

Against Human Flourishing?

A few notes about a difficult essay

Nine Helpful Micro-Habits

Nine Helpful Micro-Habits

I've long eschewed self-improvement books of the secular sort for the simple reason that, if they have any merit, they are merely rehashings of lessons you can learn from the saints, who not only teach and embody the lessons but tie them into a coherent worldview that reflects

Small Talk: How to Cultivate the True Disposition of the Artist

Small Talk: How to Cultivate the True Disposition of the Artist

Practice being an artist by being a good conversationalist

How to be a Good Agrarian

How to be a Good Agrarian

I hung out with Michael Jordan outside Chicago about twenty years ago. No, not basketball Michael Jordan. I'm talking about Michael Jordan, the English professor from Hillsdale College. We met at a Touchstone conference at Mundelein Seminary. He saw my name tag and said he enjoyed my articles.