Category: philosophical counseling

• October 9, 2019

  You Are Not What You Think You Are

  You’re alone tonight, and you don’t like being alone. Ever, let alone tonight. For you, there’s nothing worse–or almost–than being alone with your own thoughts. Because these thoughts and these emotions are painful. Your self-talk–that is, your self-referential talk–pains you. “I hate myself.” “I’m not good at anything.” “I’m not a good X-er and X-ers…
• October 8, 2019

  Psychotechnologies Of Self-transformation

  To avoid the existential threat to the human species, the late Stephen Hawking warned, in 2017, that we would need to begin the process of interplanetary colonization. Other, more sanguine prognosticators, not starting from the risk of total annihilation of homo sapiens, have come to a similar conclusion. Mars, they say. Onward and upward. Not…
• October 7, 2019

  Total Work Newsletter #45: Announcing The Serial Publication Of The Total Work Manifesto

  I’ll be publishing The Total Work Manifesto: A Critique of the Idolatry of Work in serial fashion. To learn more and to participate, you can read the latest issue of my newsletter, Total Work Newsletter #45.  
• October 5, 2019

  Tormented Souls

  If you’re from New York, then you may be more familiar with individuals who bare their souls than with those who do not. Among those who do not, a small yet significant subclass are tormented souls. Tormented souls do not speak but instead reveal their conflicted existence. How? 1. By giving off the impression that things are…
• October 4, 2019

  You Took A Wrong Turn

  You took a wrong turn. As you round the bend, you see a sign: “We work hard and play hard.” You keep walking. One group off to your left is called Success. People here are trying to get on while, they say, making the world a better etc. They do and do and do. Prestige, they beg…