Mental Sweat: Recent Episodes
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Is ignorance really bliss? How do I know if I'm ignorant, and are there varieties of ignorance? These questions and more are answered on February's podcast, featuring quotes from Stoicism and Confucianism.
Discover how routine fits into a constantly changing lifestyle of nomadism. Making certain parts of your day second nature while traveling is essential.
The optimistic cynic: shielding yourself with hope against brazenly fruitless toil. Listen to the musing of a man forced underground after a series of unsuccessful attempts to connect with the greater world. I found this letter in a desk at an estate sale.
Sigmund Freud wrote how The Mystic Writing Pad was an excellent metaphor for how human consciousness operates. Its three layers represent the senses' protective filter, Freud's perception-consciousness (Pcp-Cns), and memory. In his short 1924 article, Freud talks about trying to find a memory aid that reflects how human consciousness works but finds that paper receives only once, and chalk has no permanence. The Mystic Writing Pad was great for Freud, imagine how he would've felt about an Ipad!
Listen to prose inspired by one of the world's biggest cities, listen to how a person can disappear within the crowd, never see the same face twice and discover themself while lost amongst the masses.
"Mean Can Be Nice" is an examination of two ancient philosophic schools, Confucianism, and Stoicism, and how both assert that negativity benefits people. This counterintuitive claim is part of a collection of ancient wisdom still applicable today, lasting thousands of years.