Health is not a virtue
I was a healthy child. I had a healthy immediate family, too. We all got sick occasionally, and my sisters and I have all broken a bone at some point, but we just weren’t the sort of people to have chronic ailments or other serious health concerns. At least, that’s the best I could muster […]
The three stages of correcting failure
James Clear recently wrote a blog post on what he calls the three stages of failure, which I found quite insightful. I’d like to respond here, so I’ll briefly review his definitions and advice, and at the end I’ll give some examples of failure diagnosis from a board game called 7 Wonders. The three stages of […]
"Should" without the anxiety
I should be saving more. I should be traveling more. I should wash the dishes. I should figure out what I want to do with my life. I should read more books. Statements like these flit through my mind all the time. Clara wrote a few months ago about the way “should” statements induce anxiety: Whenever […]