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
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
This post inspired by The Daily Stoic morning email from 12/07/2020 Thomas Jefferson owned slaves and defended this horrible institution by thinking of slaves in America as lower human begins. He had pulled the wool over his own eyes so that he could not see that his actions and decisions, based on the education he … Continue reading We are the problem
Remember that every story has another side. Wisdom is the ability to see both sides and weigh them appropriately. Ray Dalio This is the fourth and final installment in my Stoic virtues series. There is Courage, Justice, Temperance, and Wisdom. It takes wisdom to know the amount of courage needed to fit nicely between recklessness … Continue reading Wisdom
When imbibing in drink, I sometimes go overboard. While nowhere near as bad as I was in college, it sometimes occurs when I wake up to find out that the last glass of beer, wine, or scotch I had was one (or two) too many. On the flip side (this occurs much less often), I … Continue reading The Golden Mean
