Throughout a very mentally taxing day of learning new and important things, the hippocampus becomes overtaxed, as it acts as a short-term memory reservoir. This can make one feel exhausted. During deep NREM sleep, a wave of electrical activity in the brain provides a path between the hippocampus and the cortex, which is the place … Continue reading The Memory Nap
With my recent quad rupture injury and subsequent surgery, I have found that my philosophy has been put to the test. Several times, my thoughts have wandered back to that moment when it happened. I begin to think about any number of alternative methods of moving a freezer and how all of them wouldn't have … Continue reading Put to the Test
A few months after the pandemic hit America I began to see many jokes and memes and feel a general sentiment from friends and family about how much 2020 sucked. While indulging friends while they did this, I never really got on board. With a shoulder surgery in January to fix a shoulder that continued … Continue reading Gratefulness for 2020
On Thursday last week, I was moving a very heavy deep freezer which had been converted into a kegerator out of my house. It slipped from my left hand, and in the split second that followed, my life has changed quite a bit. In that split second, I lifted my left leg quickly in an … Continue reading Amor Fati
Last night at dinner with friends, Jungian Archetypes was brought up. Coincidentally, the four of us were in the four quadrants and even more so, we were sitting at the table to perfectly fit the diagram below. As on conorneill.com It turns out that I am a sage, while my wife is a ruler. Sitting … Continue reading The Sage
