The Thrill of Competition Might be Vitamins for the Left Hemisphere of Your Brains
And in this modern age, you never need to nourish your left hemisphere
The Everyday Problem That is the Left Hemisphere
The left hemisphere of your brain is a miserable little tyrant, a penny-ante dictator strutting around in the gray matter.
Don’t believe me? Look at the everyday modern life that the left hemisphere has given us. It’s one big prick-fest, a carnival of impatience and irritation where every
The Battle of the Hemispheres
So, fear’s the new punk squatting in the pantheon of mortal sins.
That oozing narcissism, born from the left hemisphere’s tyrannical stranglehold on our skulls, lights up our amygdalas like a cheap firecracker every time our little empire of self gets a scratch. It’s a meltdown, a
AI's Little Victories Add Up to Huge Defeat
A malign pincer grips our weary souls as I peck out these words in the bleak dawn of early 2025. You feel it too. That dull ache in your ribcage ain't a cardiac event. It's the life force being throttled out of you by a twin-pronged
Why We Need to Meditate
So, you want to meditate? Here’s the raw deal, stripped down to the studs:
1. Plunk yourself in a chair—or on the floor if you’re one of those types—and shut your eyes.
2. Zero in on the air moving through your nose. Feel it, don’t
Scratching with Modernity
Why are some people such jerks?
Or, to borrow from our British cousins, so disagreeable?
I mean "disagreeable" in the most expansive way possible. I'm talking boors and bastards, cretins and creeps, every person labeled with a derogatory term derived from the nethers of the human
Read Your Way Out of Left-Hemisphere Hegemony
Should You Try Writing Poetry?
Glenn Arbery at The Imaginative Conservative
Against Human Flourishing?
A few notes about a difficult essay
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