Productivity & Letting Yourself Win
Samantha Faulhaber Dr. Caroline Webb is a behavioral economist that wrote the book How to Have a Good Day. In it, she documents the ways she’s helped private clients and CEOs to better their overall experience in life, take the reins and make things happen on their terms. Things like taking a walk when […]
How Smart People Get Fooled By Dummies
Chandler Stevens You may be familiar with the Dunning-Kruger effect. It’s a cognitive bias, in which people with lower ability tend to overestimate themselves, whereas people with higher ability tend to underestimate themselves – at least until true mastery is developed. As people begin to develop their skills or knowledge in a particular domain, […]
Cultivating a Skeptical Mind
Craig Mallett Despite diving quite deeply into an esoteric tradition of spiritual cultivation, I was and still am a very skeptical person by nature. If someone talks to me toting stories about enlightenment and energetic prowess, I’m even now usually inclined towards doubt, or at the very least to see it as just a […]
How to Stop Quitting
Brendan Lea Feature photo by Jackson Simmer on Unsplash
A Champion Mindset
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Hard Work vs. High Performance
Chandler Stevens What’s the difference between those individuals who wear themselves down with long hours, battling against fatigue and lack of focus, making little headway on their goals… And those who seem to effortlessly perform at a high level, accomplishing far more in a week than most do in a month, with plenty left […]
A Daoist Perspective on Choice, Values, and the Virus
Craig Mallett I’ve had a good amount of people ask me what the Daoist view of the current situation with viruses and vaccines and lockdowns and so on is, so I thought I’d reiterate the main points I keep making with people by writing a juicy article. The Da Xuan tradition differs from many […]
The Beginner’s Mind
Craig Mallett Following on from the previous post, I wanted to talk this month about a concept that often gets referred to as beginner’s mind. It’s a simple idea, a way of looking at things as if we were a beginner or a child, seeing them full of wonder and possibility rather than writing […]
Marshmallows & Momentum
Craig Mallett The image of the dynamo is used in Da Xuan to give a feeling of how the training gets started. In the beginning, it takes quite a bit of willpower, effort and juice to get going, but at some point the momentum of your efforts begin to make the practices move themselves. […]
Reconceptualizing Depression
Chandler Stevens I’m attempting something rather large in this particular piece, knowing full well that I’ll fall short. What I’d like to propose is a reconception of the phenomenon of depression. I make no claims that this is “right.” And it is not a complete picture of depression, which is an incredibly complex phenomenon. […]
The Dissonant Whispers
Dave Wardman [*] the dissonant whispers This triangle [in link above until I can figure out how to resize it for Dreamwidth] is of course the inner triadic nucleus of an enneagram concerning the life-cycle of the Physical Alchemy Facebook group.* Dissonance is the 3-point. Education the 6-point. Inspiration the 9-point. I am telling you […]
Changing Others
Brendan Lea Hello, I have received feedback that I am trying to change others. From my perspective I am trying to help, motivate and inspire. However, after receiving this feedback from a couple of people (one being my partner), I am beginning to think that I may have a blind spot. What is the […]