Day 319 of 1000: Positive Maladjustment
Reflecting on Dabrowski’s idea of positive maladjustment, and how Nietzsche and Kierkegaard are exemplars of that phenomenon.
Day 318 of 1000: Overexcitability, in cooking and in investing
Dabrowski proposed that intellectual, emotional, and other overexcitabilities can provide fuel for personal development. Applying it to cooking and investing.
Day 317 of 1000: On Being Idiotic
Loved Julie Zhuo’s article on being an idiot. Didn’t like the tie in with artificial intelligence.
Day 316 of 1000: Transcending Self and Culture
Flow psychologist Csikszentmihalyi’s ideas about how individuals can influence cultural and social evolution. I’m skeptical.
Day 315 of 1000: How Culture Distorts Reality
Culture obscures reality so that we can’t see it accurately. Ideas from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
Day 314 of 1000: Positive Disintegration and the Neutral Zone
In a personal transition, the neutral zone is a time of disorientation. Applying Dabrowski’s theory of positive disintegration to this concept.
Day 313 of 1000: Aspiration as an Alternative to Ambition
Philosopher Agnes Callard contrasts ambition and aspiration. Ambition seeks understood goals. Aspiration seeks new values.
Day 312 of 1000: Aspiring to Be Someone Different
Philosophers Agnes Callard and L.A. Paul write of personal transformation. How it applies to my reinvention.
Day 311 of 1000: Seeking Transformation through Reinvention
When you reinvent yourself your values themselves change in the process. That’s why you can’t plan your way to a new you.
Day 310 of 1000: Reviewing my Old Website
Considering my other reinvention blog which is no longer active. Should I renew its hosting or decommission?
Day 309 of 1000: Inefficient Preparation & Accepting Incompetence in Midlife Reinvention
Ideas from Henry Oliver’s book Second Act about midlife reinvention. On not having goals and objectives and accepting a lack of expertise when you start.
Day 307 of 1000: My Interests this Week
In Sunday planning, I review the week ahead. In today’s post, I also report on the current state of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran.
Day 306 of 1000: A Different Approach to Leash Reactivity
From a video by dog behaviorist Dr. Melanie Uhde, using “dynamic interactive engagement” when a dog spots another dog while on leash.
Day 305 of 1000: Spiraling Back, Spiraling Forward
I’ve agreed to foster a big dog who needs help. Is this moving backwards or forwards in my life?
Day 304 of 1000: Why the U.S. Needs NATO, but Trump Does Not
Michael McFaul of Stanford and the Hoover Institution says the U.S. still needs NATO. Unfortunately, the current U.S. President does not.
Day 303 of 1000: Writing About History, in Pseudoscientific Ways
While academics may call the theory of the four turnings pseudoscientific, I find it an enlightening way to consider current events.
Day 302 of 1000: Modelski’s Long Cycles Theory
George Modelski proposed that world leadership plays out in long cycles of roughly 100 years each, divided into four phases. We’re in the last phase.
Day 301 of 1000: Hope and the Other
Imagining resolutions to our current fourth turning crisis. Calling on hope, faith, and love.
Day 300 of 1000: Portfolio Planning During Geopolitical Conflict
Last week’s chart action in the S&P 500 might make people think we’re back to bull market programming. Not so fast.
Day 299 of 1000: Fundamental Tiredness
Byung-Chul Han and Peter Handke on tiredness — the divisive kind and the uniting kind. The kind I am feeling today.
Day 298 of 1000: Crossing a Threshold
Reflecting on my life, and the support I have from my family, at a crossroads.
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