self-reflection

I look at the sky and see you, staring back at me. Watery eyes and wavering mouth, Everywhere and nowhere. Why aren’t you who I wanted you to be? A lazy wind…

Relatively recently, I wrote a review on Goodreads of the book \\”The Secret Commonwealth\\” by Philip Pullman. I initially knocked the book a star. I thought…

The only way to learn is to learn out of curiosity, otherwise, there’s no motivation. If you learn due to an external drive, you’re not really learning. If you…

A Sisyphean perspective sheds light on the age-old question of whether money can buy happiness. <table cellpadding=”0” cellspacing=”0”…

“Do not simply tell people what happens in a story – show them”. This is a major pseudo-rule in story telling. Its what turns a series of random events into a…

When somebody knows everything, they might be right in their own eyes, but certainly not from a less biased perspective. Knowing everything means that there is…

This article is not about the magic of the Harry Potter Universe – that which fuels the dynamics of wizarding society, but rather the magic that seems to fuel…

https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/evQsOFQju08&source=uds Watching this video by VSauce recently, reminded me of a question that I had once asked myself: do we…

While reading about the amazing NASA New Horizons Space Probe (which is due to arrive at Pluto in less than a year!) I came across a webpage tracking the…

One question we may ask ourselves often is, \\’is what I\\’m doing really worth doing?\\’. Think about the last time you might\\’ve thought this way, perhaps it…

Originally published at: https://lifephysics.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-improve-your-life-with-p.html I’ve thought up a little system composed of ten words.…

Originally published at: https://lifephysics.blogspot.com/2011/10/arrogance-about-knowledge.html Of course, many of us in the world have often said: ‘Oh, I know…