What are social boundaries?
Why are they important?
And how do we go about setting them, and reinforcing them, with other people?
Year: 2015
The Persistence Of Guilt, And How To Get Rid Of It (Podcast Supplement)
Holidays can be rough times for family dynamics. Old tensions and antagonisms can simmer and bubble to the surface. When they do, we need to have a dialogue with ourselves.
This podcast can be part of that dialogue.
The Persistence Of Guilt, And How To Get Rid Of It
I saw the new film MacBeth (starring Michael Fassbender) at the Botafogo district of Rio de Janeiro a couple nights ago. I recommend it highly, as the production values are incredible and the pulse of the drama is intense. I don’t consider myself a big Shakespeare fan. I like a few of the major plays (Hamlet, MacBeth, etc.) but many of the others I find to be tedious.
How Einstein’s Thought Process Worked
I’m almost finished with Walter Isaacson’s excellent biography Einstein: His Life and Universe
“It Can’t Be Done”
It can’t be done.
It’s never been tried before.
It’s just impossible.
How many times in history have we heard those words? And how many times have those words turned out to be wrong?
Many times.
The Bold Epicureanism Of Lucretius
The author of one of the strangest and most impressive poetic works in history was born sometime around 99 or 95 B.C. The exact date is uncertain; but we are lucky to know even this morsel of information. Titus Lucretius Carus remains one of the most elusive poets of antiquity. He was an Epicurean, and this philosophy was not exactly congenial to the Roman character.
One gets the impression that there was a conspiracy of silence about him, that he may have been some grand embarrassment that needed to be hidden from view.
The centuries certainly conspired to bury his work, and he was almost completely forgotten in the Middle Ages; had the Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini not found him moldering on a monastery shelf, he might have been entirely obliterated from history.
How To Overcome Procrastination And Maintain Motivation (Podcast)
How can I stop procrastinating and regain control of my life?
How can I maintain my focus and motivation for the things I’m doing?
The Fortress Of The Mind
[Author’s Note: This essay first appeared in published form in February 2015 as a chapter of my book Pantheon. Since I use the phrase Fortress of the Mind as my motto and colophon, I wanted readers to know its origin and special significance to me.]
Archimedes, The Sand-Reckoner
The greatest of all ancient scientists, and the only one fit to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Newton, Galileo, and Einstein, was born in Syracuse, Sicily, around 287 B.C. He happened to be the son of an astronomer named Pheidias; and perhaps this fact played some role in the selection of his career. He moved to Alexandria after completing his schooling in Greek Sicily, for Alexandria was in those days the Mediterranean world’s capital of learning.
Letting Go Of The Anger And Resentments Of The Past
We all nurse some form of anger or resentment about wounds we received in the past.
Why is this? Where does it come from?
And how can we free ourselves from it?
This podcast focuses on these questions.
My podcasts are available here on SoundCloud and iTunes. Brought to you courtesy of Fortress of the Mind Publishing.
Quintus Curtius 
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