Self-Improvement

To Every Thing, There Is a Season

To Every Thing, There Is a Season

Erik Schimek

This winter, I realized that many of the neurohacking techniques I was using were reaching a point of diminishing returns. Although my food and chemical sensitivities were becoming less pronounced,...

To Every Thing, There Is a Season

Erik Schimek

This winter, I realized that many of the neurohacking techniques I was using were reaching a point of diminishing returns. Although my food and chemical sensitivities were becoming less pronounced,...

Escaping the Ego Box

Escaping the Ego Box

Erik Schimek

Plainly put, you can’t escape your ego box by listening to someone speaking from a place of profound ego. “Look at how awesome and successful I am” … yawn. What...

Escaping the Ego Box

Erik Schimek

Plainly put, you can’t escape your ego box by listening to someone speaking from a place of profound ego. “Look at how awesome and successful I am” … yawn. What...

The Ego Box

The Ego Box

Erik Schimek

We don’t have to live in a world dominated by ego, lies and hubris: “There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord...

The Ego Box

Erik Schimek

We don’t have to live in a world dominated by ego, lies and hubris: “There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord...

Nietzsche, the Artistic Philosopher with a Hammer

Nietzsche, the Artistic Philosopher with a Hammer

Erik Schimek

An understanding of the motives of the existentialist philosopher Freidrich Nietzsche can be found in his earliest book, The Birth of Tragedy. It was in the Birth of Tragedy that...

Nietzsche, the Artistic Philosopher with a Hammer

Erik Schimek

An understanding of the motives of the existentialist philosopher Freidrich Nietzsche can be found in his earliest book, The Birth of Tragedy. It was in the Birth of Tragedy that...

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Erik Schimek

It is a poor quality man who believes himself to be an island, who acts as if honor and empathy are ‘outdated’ and that self-aggrandizement and elevation of the ego...

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Erik Schimek

It is a poor quality man who believes himself to be an island, who acts as if honor and empathy are ‘outdated’ and that self-aggrandizement and elevation of the ego...

The Trap of Stoicism

The Trap of Stoicism

Erik Schimek

Marcus Aurelius and stoicism have become a popular choice of role model. Stoicism teaches that men should not show emotion no matter the provocation. Stoicism denies the emotional and irrational...

The Trap of Stoicism

Erik Schimek

Marcus Aurelius and stoicism have become a popular choice of role model. Stoicism teaches that men should not show emotion no matter the provocation. Stoicism denies the emotional and irrational...