by Sean | Feb 26, 2017 | Books, Business, Marketing, Storytelling
If the glove doesn’t fit… Even though I didn’t type it out, your brain probably said “you must acquit.” Why is that? Your brain ‘hears’ the rest of the sentence as if I wrote it out because of audiation, the process by which...
by Sean | Feb 12, 2017 | Books
“Any man who does not weep at his mother’s funeral runs the risk of being put to death.” – Camus In The Stranger Albert Camus explores his philosophy of the absurd – existentialism – through the story of Meursault. He’s a man...
by Sean | Feb 12, 2017 | Books, Philosophy, Politics, Stoicism
What does it mean to be a virtuous citizen in a republic? America’s founding father’s were designing a system of government in reaction to the English Monarchy. They studied political theorists from Aristotle to Locke. And it was the history of the Roman...
by Sean | Mar 29, 2016 | Books, Learning, Mindfulness, Productivity, Stoicism
“Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has...
by Sean | Mar 25, 2016 | Books, Learning, Storytelling
In 1,252 the Islamic world was in the middle of an golden age – much like the Italian Renaissance. It was an era of free thought and intellectual liberalism. Baghdad was home to the House of Wisdom, a library which attracted a great many Catholic and Jewish...