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The rate of technological progress exceeded the rate of our psychological development by orders of magnitude in last couple of centuries. Psychologically, we’re pretty much the same, if not less developed, as the ancient Greeks might have been and yet the technology at our disposal would have been unimaginable even a few decades ago. The…

Growth seems to be an unquestionably positive concept in the zeitgeist of the 21st century. Not only positive, but also as a kind of a natural law that governs the universe and can be discovered in all domains of life. Hence growth is depicted and perceived as the ultimate good to strive for. Screw balance…

Pretending to know how you got here, how this existence came about and what your role and place in it is, will give you an air of certainty, no doubt. If you are really good at this, you can even fool yourself not only others, and really believe that you know, that you have certainty.…

Not too much, not too little. Just enough. We seem to have lost our ability to feel what’s enough somewhere around the upgrade from stone to iron axe. Since then, we’ve had too much of some things and too little of others. We’ve lost our natural balance and peace of mind, which other animals who…

Disagreement turns into conflict when the parties involved feel like they are in a zero-sum game. While we are having an abstract debate about whether bread is good for our health or not, we have a difference of opinion. When there is one slice of bread left and we are both hungry, that is a…

You thought you had arrived. Not at the final destination, just at a milestone where you can rest and from where you can see the next place to stop. But you realize you were wrong. What looked like a milestone from a distance, was actually a crappy plastic bag strung on the spikes of a…

The feeling of inadequacy, of not being good enough, not being worthy is such a domineering factor in the human experience. It’s there in all of us by design, as a side effect of the intellect. It’s very apparent in some people and it goes unnoticed by the vast majority. I feel lucky to belong…

Have you ever seen a couple of months old baby up close?  If you have, you must have noticed how they look at the world around them. With complete awe, and as if they have no clue about what’s going on, what all this is. The inadequacy, and awkwardness of their every action is proof…

You never seem to finish your to-do list. And you often don’t even know what to do first because so many important and urgent tasks compete for your attention. You’ve tried every productivity app, but your several to do lists keep on growing. You’ve read all the articles on how to get more done. What…

The sun has gone down, and it’s new moon. You are riding a bike downhill a serpentine road patterned by patches of gravel and potholes. The headlamp you are wearing is not designed for this. You only see what’s in front of you when it may be too late.

Almost everyone is affected by insomnia at some point in their lives, the condition in which you have the opportunity to sleep and yet you can’t. There are different types of insomnia and there may be several underlying causes. I’ll be talking about what I have here, which is transient insomnia.

Louis CK came to Budapest. And I went to see him. I haven’t always been a fan. I recall my first encounter of his stand up on YouTube very vividly. It was a piece where he groans like a moron for about two minutes. I didn’t judge him by that alone though. I had a…

I began this year with reflection, looking back at the past year trying to connect the dots. One thing stood out: I had consumed a ton of information in various shapes and forms and had several realizations of my own. And yet, I didn’t feel I had managed to keep a good record of these…

Mind, as a noun, is quite misleading. It sounds like a part of your body, an organ even, while it’s actually a function of the brain. It’s a process that your consciousness perceives as the inner chatter, a relentless succession of thoughts. Only by making that distinction do you have a chance to take control…

Your mind is drowning in information. It’s screaming for help, but you can’t hear it. You get a sense that something isn’t right, but you don’t know what. So you search for what might be the problem and feed your mind even more information in the process.