In the last post, I argued for the importance of self-awareness for living a purposeful life. Two of the major barriers to self-awareness are ego-protecting rationalisation, and ego-depleting …
Self awareness and purposeful living
Earlier in the year, I wrote about the elements of purposeful living, with the definite intention of expanding on the themes is a series of in-depth posts. Life got in the way, but now it's time to …
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Finding purpose when languishing
I've spent this week working on a new post on the neuroscience of how limerence fades, drawing on the literature of habituation and hedonic adaptation, but if I'm honest it's been a bit of a …
Case study: I don’t want to devalue my limerent object
Rachel got in touch recently about a scenario that is very difficult to cope with - not difficult because of any grand drama, or threats to life and limb, but because there is no simple escape from …
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A personal note on adversity
For six years, I have written this blog, and added a new post every Saturday morning at 9 am UK time. This is the first week that I thought I would not manage it. It is currently 11:52 pm on …
Morality, limerence and purposeful living
A couple of years ago, I read the book "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt. For those unfamiliar, it introduces the concept of Moral Foundations Theory, which emerged from Haidt's research into the …
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