Within is my entry for Kyocera’s 2020 Philosophy Essay Contest. COVID-19 has presented an abundance of unique procurement challenges, and adaptation to evolving conditions is imperative for business continuity. This essay captures some of my views on how we might thrive in the post-COVID world.
Continue reading “The Post-COVID Workplace”Demystifying Atheism
This will be no ordinary skeptical diatribe. The message I mean to convey does not rely on criticizing the flaws of religion. The value of a perspective untethered from divinity can be well attested on its own merits, without any need to denigrate alternative views (of which I’ve done plenty elsewhere). It is crucial to begin by explaining what Atheism is and is not, as I encounter a great deal of confusion on this point.
Continue reading “Demystifying Atheism”Enrichment Through Movement
A prominent trend exists in the fitness industry for its ambassadors to present themselves with such consistent and overwhelming positivity as to border on insincerity. While I will never criticize someone for attempting to be an uplifting figure in the lives of her clients/fans/followers, it is important to understand that such a disposition doesn’t come quite so naturally for all of us. I’m compelled to write this following a discussion with a close friend about struggles with depression, self-esteem, loneliness and other such malignant mentalities which manifest as blemishes on the human condition, and how movement can be a valuable tool to emancipate oneself from their grasp.
Continue reading “Enrichment Through Movement”On Humility
“ There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man,true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Ernest Hemingway
“ Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”
Continue reading “On Humility”Miyamoto Musashi – The Book of Five Rings