Category » Applied Philosophy & Psychology
Stress, Arousal, Helplessness, & Recovery
If this is easier to understand in a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtNOQyjHbw0 Last week’s intervention was making a mistake and saying, Excellent! and then thinking of at least one advantage resulting from that mistake. The subject was stress and its relationship to trauma, addiction, and burnout. We’re going to dig into those relationships from the perspectives of […]
PART II: Process
Today’s blog is one of a chain from an in-process book entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is the eighth passage of Process, the second of four sections of that book. Last week we placed footings. This week, we build foundation walls. Metaphysical Foundation Walls As related, the first time […]
Individual Excellence: Part II, Process 7
Today’s blog is one of a chain from an in-process book entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is the seventh passage of Process, the second of four sections of that book. Last week five lists were presented here. This week discussion of various points of comparison, between the lists, begins […]
Individual Excellence: Part II Process 6
Today’s blog is one of a chain from an in-process book entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is the sixth passage of Process, the second of four sections of that book. The final paragraph of the last blog is directly below. If you want to indulge your red line, you […]
Individual Excellence: Part II Process 5
Today’s blog is one of a chain from an in-process book entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is the fifth passage of Process, the second of four sections of that book. PART II: Process Building a Framework of Processes As mentioned above, it took me at least a year of […]
Individual Excellence: Part II Process 4
Today’s blog is one of a chain from an in-process book entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is the fourth passage of Process, the second of four sections. PART II: Process Creating Processes for Accurate Thinking & Well-Spirited Actions As the section above was being written, the following questions were […]
Individual Excellence: Part II Process 3
Today’s blog is one of a chain from an in-process book entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is the third passage of Process, the second of four sections. The first paragraph, below, was the last paragraph of last week’s blog. PART II: Process Why Processes? (Continued) Anecdotally, i.e., only in […]
Individual Excellence: Part II, Process 2
Today’s blog is one of a chain from an in-process book entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is the second passage of Process, the second of four sections. The first paragraph, below, was the last paragraph of last week’s blog. PART II: Process Why Processes? (Continued) In the paragraph above, […]
Individual Excellence: Part II Process 1
Today’s blog is one of a chain from an in-process book entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is the first passage of Process, the second of four sections. PART II: Process Why Processes? This is a book about living a well-spirited life. Aristotle, the Stoics, and almost all the thinkers […]
Individual Excellence: Part I-B-6: Grouped People
Final post of first quadrant of manuscript. This deals with connection in social contexts. Image: Author’s photograph of two people sitting at the north shore of Lake Ontario, Oakville, May 2024.