Cicero on Aging
It’s easy to get down as you get older. You see friends and family die, things start to hurt, and you see both the good and the evil in men’s hearts. Anyone who ages and doesn’t see the sadness and fallen nature of things from time to time must be living on another planet. One […]
Neglected Cicero
I’ve been reading a ton of classic books the last few years to prepare for my retreat to Italy this summer, where I’ll be studying classical Rhetoric in Rome for a week alongside a selected group of other men from all over the world. It’s difficult to pick but some of my favorite works have […]
Masters and Slaves
A famous book came out a while back, in 1992, entitled “The End of History and the Last Man” by Francis Fukuyama. What Fukuyama meant by the title was not that time, or history, was itself ending, but rather that man’s “progressive” historical struggle was nearing an end. Since history, according to this theory, […]
Who Are Your Heroes?
Who are your heroes? Heroes can make a big difference for motivation. Who do you want to be like? They don’t have to be perfect, no one is. Just pick out something you really admire about the person and try to emulate this quality. The famous psychologist Carl Jung popularized the idea of archetypes and […]
Chaos and What You Can Do About It
As someone who writes about health from a broad perspective, I’ve had my mind for quite a while on the frequently occurring tragedies which have happened here in the US the last 10-15 years. I will spare you a recount of the sadness. If I had to point to one cause, I’d put the blame […]
