If you experience high levels of neuroticism, it likely impacts your life in a range of pretty shitty ways. As hard as it might be to believe, especially if you’ve felt the same way for years, it is possible to reduce your neuroticism and its negative effects on your life. There used to be a …
In the space of a few short weeks, the Covid-19 outbreak has flipped our way of life on its head. An unfeeling, unconscious, and invisible pathogen has ruthlessly undermined the large-scale human cooperative effort that we call modern globalized society. Countries closed their borders, airplanes stopped flying, bars and restaurants shut, and millions of people …
Read moreHow Covid-19 Gives Us All the Chance to Accept Impermanence
Why Do You Feel Unhappy All The Time? It is a perplexing dilemma for the unlucky people who tend towards pessimism, negativity, rumination, and neuroticism as their default mental state: Why do other people seem so happy all the time? What is wrong with me that I seem to feel unhappy by default? Was it …
The Irish Cultural Love of Booze As an Irish person, it is almost a cultural more to consume a lot of alcohol in my country. When young Irish people drink on the weekend, we generally don’t do it with the sole aim of enjoying our drinks. Without wanting to speak for the few who are …
Read moreShould You Drink Alcohol? Here’s What Philosophers and Science Say
The Present Moment Entering the present moment sounds like a bit of a contradictory phrase. After all, “it is only ever now”, as the spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle is fond of saying. The problem is that while we might always physically be present in whatever location our body happens to be in, mentally, most of …