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.

Scratching with Modernity

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

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.

A Tip to the Right Hemisphere

A Tip to the Right Hemisphere

I agree with Modern Drunkard Magazine's observation that, if you can't afford to tip the bartender, you can't afford to drink in a bar. Just buy a six-pack and stay home. Me? I prefer to stay home with the six-pack, but I love bars.

Hey Dude, Let's Inherit the Kingdom

Hey Dude, Let's Inherit the Kingdom

If you want to inherit the kingdom, look with the eyes of the little child. Or maybe drink a few cocktails. Here's the thing about kids: Their prefrontal cortexes aren't developed. Their PFCs don't fully develop until their early twenties. PFCs control analytical thinking.