How signalman Jack and the stoic philosophers teach us to follow a social media diet. We can learn about avoiding stress and having a better…
By reasoned choice the only book that sits on my desk is “The Daily Stoic” by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman. 365 quotations from the…
Worry is futile, but hard to avoid. The threat posed by the rapid spread of cases of Zika virus in North America is worrying many…
Ineffectual leadership in the West since WW2 has brought us to the current state of uncertainty, but all is not lost. There is hope
Today is the 10th anniversary of the terrorist bombing of 3 trains on the London Underground and within an hour, a bus on a busy…
It’s been three weeks since my last post. A year ago I would have worried about such a long gap between posts. Now with my…
Elephants feature in many folk tales and metaphors. Two that are relevant: The modern one “The Elephant in…
I bought myself a Christmas present on Amazon, the book “The Obstacle is The Way” by Ryan Holiday. It arrived on Friday, I finished it…
Wishing you success, good health and happiness in 2015. May you be safe from the kind of violence that Islamic terrorists have unleashed on Paris…
I started writing about stoicism in this post on 21 November, then had to rely on my own ability to be stoic to get…