Programming advice
As a parent, you’re in charge of your child’s initial programming. You’re inevitably going to screw something up. You’re only human. That’s why the most important feature you can program …
Category: Mental health
Combat reflexes
You need quick reflexes in hand-to-hand combat, to evade your opponent’s sudden moves and flip them to your advantage. Interpersonal conflicts, like a couple’s quarrel, require quick reflexes as well. …
Humans are animals.
We’d be happier if we embraced that fact and lived by it. I’m not asking you to spend more time in nature, eat organic food, or take breaks from modern …
Tough love
On the issue of raising children, I believe in tough love. But there’s more to that concept than “be tough, but for loving reasons”. The way I see it, the …
Body positivity
I’m not sure that body positivity works for everyone. It may well be that some people never learn to love the body in the mirror. I’m speaking to those people …
The most harmful misconception
is that the harshest truths of life must be taught harshly. The opposite is true. We should reserve our warmest, tenderest love for those we teach of death, cruelty, and …
God’s love
A God who created us and loves us wouldn’t need us to worship it. It wouldn’t be bothered if we believed in a different god. A God who created us …
Sympathy
Sympathy is never a bad thing. One can allow too much, excuse too much, but not sympathize too much. Never feel bad about feeling bad for someone. Even if it’s …
Be a man
There’s been an online surge of manly guidance in recent years. Fellows in sleek suits and trimmed beards praise the virtue of traditional masculinity. Confidence, discipline, dominance. Economic prowess, sexual …
Making peace
To move on and heal from something, you have to make peace. That much everyone knows. But we tend to find that some things are impossible to make peace with. …