For this one, you may want to look up “Free Will” on the internet and pick a couple of TED talks for background. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH_VG_aqwoc INTRODUCTION: A small but hard core mix of neuroscientists, philosophers and psychologists holds that hardly anything we do is an expression of “Free Will”. That is, we are, essentially, “Biological…
“In analytic geometry, an asymptote (/ˈæsɪmptoʊt/) of a curve is a line such that the distance between the curve and the line approaches zero [but never actually GETS there] as they tend to infinity.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote In practical terms, one can approach certain unassailable goals (e.g., such as perfection) forever WITHOUT ACTUALLY GETTING THERE. However, such can still be increasingly and progressively…
The annually updated book “What Color Is Your Parachute” by the late Richard Bolles has been a helpful life and career guide for multiple generations. The basic thrust of the book is one of personally defining and designing … formulating and reformulating … a life path into which we can direct our main focus and…
The story of human development – both individually and en masse – is one of both glorious and inglorious progression … driven by a combination of internal and external compelling forces, ideally toward bigger, stronger, smarter, more knowledgeable, more skilled, and more competitive attributes. We don’t always get it right – and few of us…
“I fight my demons every day, so I’ve got to continue to work at it.” Jared Lorenzen [en route to a goal of losing 100+ lbs.] “Demons” seem to permeate our lives. They show up nearly everywhere we turn. But they’re not just “out there” – many of them are embedded in our own constitution,…