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🎬The Danger of Seeing What Others Don’t: Terence Mckenna

Terence McKenna starts by calling the shaman the archetype of the artist, the maker who pulls order out of the unconscious. He argues that the same line traced from early shamanism into metalworking…

📝Epictetus locates the whole of our freedom in one narrow gap: between

Epictetus finds our whole freedom in one narrow gap: the moment between an impression arriving and our assenting to it. An impression is never just a bare perception, it already comes bundled with a…

🎬The Man Who Predicted The Iran War: The Next 9/11 Will Target Your Bank Account! | Professor Jiang

Professor Chang opens by saying he studies patterns of history and global supply chains to predict the future, and he lays out several predictions tied to the idea of another 9/11. His first is that…

🎬My philosophy for a happy life | Sam Berns | TEDxMidAtlantic

Sam is seventeen and has a disease called Progeria, which keeps his weight at about fifty pounds and includes tight skin, stunted growth, and heart disease. Only about 350 kids worldwide have it. A…

🎬The World’s Most Secretive Jewish Community: Hasidic Jews (I Spent 48 Hours Inside)

The film crew gets special permission to enter 770, described as the heartbeat of the Hasidic Jewish world in New York, a community that keeps itself largely closed off to outsiders. Before people…

🎬For Those Who Don't Want To Work /Bashar

A woman says she struggles with letting go of the idea that she must work, since her real dream is to paint and write. She is told that by calling painting and writing not-work, she is really saying…

🎬Miyamoto Musashi - How to Master Your Emotions

Emotion is the feeling that bubbles up when something happens to you, whether joy, sadness, anger, or fear, and it arrives involuntarily. Most people respond in one of two ways: they either let…

🎬Applying Military Strategy in Life - Microsoft Talk

The talk opens with a distinction between strategy books in general and military strategy specifically, a body of ideas about fighting wars efficiently that stretches back centuries, most famously…