Get your armchairs ready, today’s post is a bit philosophical. However, it ties into those ongoing, long-term challenges in our lives and we hope to those in your life too. We’ll be questioning the age-old question of “why do bad things happen to good people”? In Stoic Philosophy this question itself would be considered a fallacy. … Continue reading Why bad things can’t happen to good people
Humans struggle with a phenomenon known as hedonic adaptation – we get used to what we have and want more (aside: this is one of several interesting behaviours that fall under the realm of Behavioural Science – check out Min’s BehavLab blog on that here!). Stoicism attempts to counter this problem by resetting our expectations through … Continue reading Internet Detox
We’ve got aching feet as we write this week’s post. For our challenge today we decided to go a day without sitting. We take for granted the amount of sitting we typically do in a day – in some ways it’s been refreshing to have a day long stretch. In fact, many health studies have … Continue reading Taking a stand