Nonrandomness and Gamification of Life Do you feel like things, events, and people are thrown at you at random in life? Does that sometimes make you feel crushed by the weight of uncertainty and powerlessness? I have an idea that might help you put a fun spin on that. What if

🚢 Day 6: What "Being Triggered" Is & What to Do About It

🚢 Day 9. I'm sorry about this molecular essay, but this is what I got today. Title: Healing sucks. Imagine life is like driving a car. You start driving with a brand-new windshield. As you go on, you start accumulating all kinds of muck and gunk on the windshield. Most of

🚢 Day 14. I wasn't planning on coming out this soon, but here it goes. I feel a tremendous amount of resistance to publishing this, which is precisely why I need to do this. #suicide #suicideawareness #suicideprevention Tim Ferriss

When you desire something, consider yourself destined for it. You do deserve it. The catch is to discern what you really really want and what you think you want.

You don't have itching flaking skin because you have 'eczema'. You aren't constantly tired because you have 'fatigue'. You don't have joint pain because you have 'arthritis'. You don't have gut issues because you have 'IBS'. Our 'healthcare' system likes to

There are English sentences German speakers say that used to make my head tilt. There’s nothing grammatically wrong per se, and I could understand the meaning most of the times. It was just that I’d never heard of English words strung together in sentences like these: “Your

This old ficus tree is truly a giving tree. #paphos #cyprus

Health is the most important pillar of our lives. And the way we deal with health (both physical and mental) can use some improvements. I pointed out how we often mistake the mechanism ("how") of diseases for the root causes ("why") in my past essay. Berra_Be_Healthy 🚢 pointed out

You are powerless to get people to like the real you. Everyone is. You are not powerless to figuring out what would make someone like you, and duping them into thinking that you’re that. But if you do that, they don’t really like YOU do they?

A Conversation with a London Taxi Driver I used to be an avid football fan. My favorite club was Arsenal FC because of Arsène Wenger and Thierry Henry. Arsène Wenger’s focus was not just winning or money. He pursued beauty and style on the pitch. Likewise, I found beauty in

I’m trying out a different way to relate to other people. Specifically, I’m trying to communicate my feelings and needs honestly and openly, giving others the chance to take care of my feelings and needs. Past Lila didn’t do this because: ▸She didn’t know relating to others

A friend of mine, a former colleague at the institute where I was doing my PhD then quit, told me yesterday that my old supervisor spoke ill of me behind my back. They said to my friend: “You know… Some PhD students just don’t have what it takes. They’re weak and can’t deal

Black Birds & The High Highs and Low Lows of Life The best part of living in Europe for me is the black birds. Since all of us humans are egocentric to some extent by nature, I assumed that everybody loves black birds. I mean, how can you not?! They sound insanely beautiful.

I don't know if it's related, but it reminds me of my favorite quote from the movie A River Runs Through It: "We can love completely without complete understanding."

Have you noticed that it’s way easier to love and forgive others than to love and forgive yourself? Recently, I started to suspect that it’s by design, so that we have to (or get to) do it for each other. So that we don’t have to (or shouldn’t) go it alone. If you struggle with

I honestly thought this was meant to be an irony. But I guess he meant it, and a lot of people seem to agree with him. I'm so confused. Also sad... about how many times the word "survival" came up in the comments. I came to believe that we are here to thrive as our most

Ironically, self-love is not something you can do entirely on your own, contrary to what the prefix “self” might suggest. Even though you are inherently lovable, you do need other people to reflect it back to you, just like you don’t see your own face unless you see its