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 28, 2016 | Education, Learning, Mindfulness, Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Pschyology, Stoicism
I was observing a middle school math class a few weeks ago and the teacher started diving into an algebra problem. He was explaining to students how to solve a multistep algebraic equation. But the lesson finished without ever touching upon why students should learn...
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...