In today’s fast-paced world, professionals across all fields are constantly looking for ways to enhance their learning and productivity. Yet, an often-overlooked factor that has a profound influence on cognitive performance and personal development is bioenergetics, or the way our bodies produce and use energy.

Have you ever felt like you’re just drifting through life? Going through the motions, feeling joyless and aimless? You might be experiencing what American Sociologist Corey Keyes calls "languishing."

Alfred Adler's revolutionary insights into the inferiority complex reshaped psychology, emphasising personal growth through adversity. Explore Adler's timeless wisdom and discover how embracing our vulnerabilities can unlock unparalleled human potential.

Byun-Chul Han’s “The Burnout Society” sheds light on the modern condition, offering valuable insights into the societal pressures driving burnout and exhaustion.

Emma Goldman was a remarkable woman who dedicated her life to the cause of anarchism, a political philosophy that rejects all forms of authority and advocates for a society based on voluntary cooperation and free association of individuals and groups.

Lebensphilosophie, or philosophy of life, is a term that describes a movement of thought that emerged in Germany and France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

David Hume (1711-1776), one of the most significant Western philosophers, believed that talking about the self doesn't make sense.

"The Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker is a thought-provoking exploration of the human condition that sheds light on our fundamental motivations in life. The book provides insight into how we cope with the realisation of our own mortality and why we tend to fear and hate those who are different.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new type of philosophy called pragmatism emerged in America. Pragmatism was all about focusing on how ideas could be put into action rather than just thinking about them in abstract ways.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) saw three stages in a spiritual transformation towards a flourishing life, which he introduced in his now iconic work of philosophical fiction, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883).

In his book, ‘To Have or to Be’, published in 1976, Eric Fromm put forward two inherent but contradictory motivations for living one’s life. He termed them modes of existence.

Some thoughts inspired by Dr. Alan Levinovitz's recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience.

Some thoughts inspired by The New Curators: Who Decides What’s Culturally Important?

Margaret Heffernan describes being wilfully blind as when we (consciously or subconsciously) choose to ignore what we “could know and should know but don’t know because it makes us feel better not to know.”

Are we (perhaps unwittingly) contributing to the spreading of bullsh*t, and what impact could this be having on the learning of others? More to the point, should we even care?

When planning, we usually focus on what we will do in a situation. As such, our 'behaviour' should be aligned with our values and beliefs and underpinned by a coherent 'philosophy'.

Recently, Ryan Adams was listening to Taylor Swift's 1989 on his tour bus. To kill some time on the road between venues, Adams experimented with playing some of the songs in his own style.

What is it to think critically? In some ways, it's being adept at detecting bullshit. Indeed, I often tell students they need to be a bit more like Bullshit Man.

The 'mechanics of the mind' peak at around age 25 to 30, and then decline steadily as we age and the activity in certain areas of our brain diminishes. In essence, the aging brain is said to get slower, and our capacity and ability to carry out mental operations and executive functions decrease.

David Hume's Is/Ought problem describes how we often observe the way the world is and, from that, derive how things should be.