Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn was a captain in the Soviet Army during World War 2 and also spent eight years in the Soviet gulag prison system.  More importantly for us today, he is the author of one of the most important books ever written – The Gulag Archipelago (link to an abridged

Have you ever been angry, depressed, or anxious where the same negative or hurtful message keeps playing over and over in your head?  Of course you have.  We all experience the haunting of the negative message stuck on repeat in our minds. It can be that hurtful thing that someone

It’s that time of year where many people will spend more time with family and friends and have more social interactions with co-workers.  This could either be exciting or anxiety inducing – or both.  The holidays have a way of highlighting both the beautiful and the strained, the joy and

Found on page 438 of historian and Professor Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens:  A Brief History of Humankind (underlines mine, italics his): So our medieval ancestors were happy because they found meaning to life in collective delusions about the afterlife? Yes.  As long as nobody punctured their fantasies, why shouldn’t they? 

None of these give the whole picture, but are worth their place on the board. “The whole of the emotional case against capitalism turns on the unequal distribution of wealth. But is it peculiar to the nature of capitalism to concentrate wealth in a few hands? Here the first aspect truth is a

Many people these days are pretty negative about marriage.  For many, the concept of two people saving themselves for each other and then making a lifetime commitment to love and be faithful to each other for the rest of their lives (once referred to as the virtue and spiritual practice

On July 4th, 1776, representatives from thirteen British colonies on the North American continent formally declared their sovereignty and independence from the government they had always known and claimed the right to form their own government as they saw fit. This group of radicals and soon to be “freedom fighters”

I’m sure to some people this sounds ridiculously untrue, but if you are willing, stick with me for a moment. Imagine you are sitting at a table and the person across from you slides two portraits in front of you.  You don’t recognize the people in either of the pictures. 

Here is a good insight I got from a friend of mine.  See which of these three things you bring to the table.  Then think about the people you work with and what they bring to the table. Everyone who wants to succeed in a work environment must have at

At almost seven and four, you are both far too young for this conversation now, but I was thinking about it and wanted to write a note to your future selves. At some point in your lives you will hear or pick up the message that “men are primarily visual