I’ve been listening to Scott Adams’ podcast for several years and more recently as a supporter of his work on the platform Locals. Most of his ‘micro lessons’ are posted there but he shares the occasional one on his podcast. Scott is the creator of the famous Dilbert comic. He is a master of persuasion …
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“Vervaeka, a contemporary photographer, documents the eerily beautiful portraits adorning Hong Kong’s cemeteries, as natural elements drive the images further and further into abstraction. “The images of black-and-white faces, having braved exposure to rain, sun and extreme temperatures, gain an ethereal glow as time eats away at them. As the faces fade into anonymity, their …
The Triumph of Death is an oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562. It is currently housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, where it has been since 1827. “The painting shows a panorama of an army of skeletons wreaking havoc across a blackened, desolate landscape. Fires burn in the distance, and the sea is littered …
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At one point I arrogantly and incorrectly assumed that walking was for overweight, unfit people. In this post, I’m going to share with you three different people who are successful entrepreneurs, inventors, and legendary strength athletes with world records who changed my mind – and perspective – on daily walks. I am grateful for these …
This is one of the most beautiful and moving memento mori that I’ve ever come across. This statue of a weeping angel is from the Montjuïc Cemetery, located in Barcelona, Spain. It has a rich history and is a hidden gem. I definitely recommend checking out this blog; which features some of the most beautiful …
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle is a self-portrait painted in 1872 by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin. “The painting depicts a bearded Böcklin stalked by a personification of death playing a single-stringed violin in an intimation of his mortality. It is an echo of an earlier painting of Sir Brian Tuke by an anonymous painter c.1540, …
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Many of us are aware of consumerism but the theory underpinning it, Conspicuous Consumption, is less well known. This post is a basic introduction to the theory of Conspicuous Consumption and by extension – consumerism. I also touch on how we can change by being intentional consumers. Refuting for ourselves the ‘needs’ and ‘wants’ that …
John Danaher: “…I do believe that death is the single most important element in life, that gives value to our days…ultimately you know your life is finite, and actually very finite, and could be even more so if fate plays its hand and you die an early death or what have you, we never know …
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“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way …
Found Drowned is an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, c. 1850, inspired by Thomas Hood‘s 1844 poem The Bridge of Sighs. The painting depicts the dead body of a woman washed up beneath the arch of Waterloo Bridge, with her lower body still immersed in the water of the River Thames. She is presumed …
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