Category: philosophical counseling

• October 29, 2019

  The Trailhead Of The Path To Wisdom

  Suppose that you’ve been knocked off your horse. Yesterday I call this an “existential opening.” Good. Why good? Because (I argue) you cannot possibly be wise if you’ve never been knocked off your horse. The latter, if you let it, can set the search in motion. Suppose after you got knocked off your horse that you…
• October 28, 2019

  The Blessing Called Getting Knocked Off Your Horse

  For the longest time, perhaps as long as you can remember, you’ve been riding along on your horse, heading in this direction or in that one, going toward this place or that place. All without a hitch. Yes, sometimes you’ve crossed some scrub grass or clanked down on some hard pebbles or almost lost your…
• October 12, 2019

  Jobs Suck

  For the life of me, I don’t know why people have been talking up jobs. All the jobs I’ve had have pretty much sucked. If you can believe it, I was a security guard for the Chicago Bears back when their summer training camp used to be held in my hometown. Next summer I was…
• October 11, 2019

  Depth

  When we say that somebody “lacks depth,” what do we mean? I take it we mean (a) that this person is, in a certain sense, thoughtless, (b) that he or she hasn’t suffered or hasn’t suffered much (or, more likely, hasn’t registered that suffering), and (c) that he or she hasn’t struggled. Take first glimpses of my…
• October 10, 2019

  The Limits Of The Entrepreneurial Mindset

  Everyone Is a Solopreneur… I recently finished Yvon Chouinard’s Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, a book that recounts his journey to becoming an entrepreneur as well as the birth and success of Patagonia. There is much to praise in the book, not the least of which is Chouinard’s, and Patagonia’s, central commitment…