Everyone wants to gain notoriety. Everyone wants to be respected.
But what are the various ways this can be achieved?
Everyone wants to gain notoriety. Everyone wants to be respected.
But what are the various ways this can be achieved?

Every man starting out in life is concerned with gaining notoriety. He wishes to win a name for himself, and thereby gain the respect of others. We wish others to see us as we see ourselves; or perhaps we want to remake ourselves into something better than what we once were.
This is a podcast reading of my article of the same title that I published here today.
It describes how I overcame a collapsed lung, an operation, and a hospital recovery, and what kind of attitude you need to have when confronting disasters.
We all have to deal with difficult people. They may be co-workers, clients, friends, family members, or lovers. We can’t avoid contact with them.
And with our narcissistic world being what it is, more and more difficult people are injected into the course of life every day.
[To read the rest of the article, click here.]

I have a huge scar on my back. It’s 35 or 36 stitches, I think. I can’t remember the exact number. Let me tell you how I got it. It was my freshman year in college. And this was a long time ago, mind you. I’m talking 1986 here.
This is a podcast reading of an article that I published yesterday.
The tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has much to say about the virtue of justice, and why it is so rare.
This is a podcast reading of an article that I published last week here at Fortress of the Mind.
Recently I received a moving request to turn some of my articles into podcast readings. It came from one very kind German schoolteacher who found them useful for her classroom instruction in teaching English to pupils.

William H. Prescott was mentioned in the preceding article here, but I felt that he merited a more extended treatment in an article devoted to him alone. He was America’s first great historian, known for his heroic style, and for his ability to fuse a meticulous attention to original sources with a striking narrative power.

It’s hard to predict when you’ll enjoy your most productive periods in life. For some people, their years of productivity come early, and then they just ride out the remainder of their lives based on early successes. Albert Einstein, to take an example, was one of those people. In fact, most major scientists seem to achieve their major breakthroughs before they reach the age of 50. After that, there seem to follow decades of “coasting” on past successes.
This podcast is a discussion of the merits of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s new film The Revenant.
It’s an important film, and one that I think every man would benefit from.
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