Mindset Shifts—Essays by Barry Brownstein
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Marcus's Forgiveness Path
Without exercising the power of attention, we remain a mindless puppet.
Mar 28
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To Remain Free, Make the Ordinary Meaningful
Those who make meaning in their lives walk on by when totalitarians come calling.
Mar 27
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Meditations Session 9: Keep Practicing
There is a simple test to see if you have reached the starting gate to unlearn.
Mar 23
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When You’re Feeling Like Sisyphus, the Stoics Have the Antidote
How one conducts oneself is a theme the great Stoic philosophers continually considered.
Mar 21
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Meditations Session 8: All This Has Happened Before
As we choose to reoccupy our command center, we are no longer puppets being jerked around.
Mar 16
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Sweet are The Uses of Adversity
If only, we think, I didn’t have this problem, then everything would be all right.
Mar 14
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When We Turn on the Light, Darkness Vanishes
There is no path forward when truth is perceived as “a mortal enmity.”
Mar 13
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Meditations Session 7: Overcoming “Functional Atheism”
We have been devoted to a quest to achieve something ever fleeting—controlling the world so that we feel happy.
Mar 9
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Why Solzhenitsyn’s Line Between Good and Evil Matters
It would be a foolish bet to expect that each person will grow up civilized and exercise their moral agency to turn towards good.
Mar 8
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Meditations Session 6: Allowing Our Faulty Code to be Rewritten
This week, we continue our work on Notebooks 6 and 7. Beginning 3/9, we work with Notebooks 8 and 9. This past week, it was revealed that Google's…
Mar 2
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February 2024
Argentina's Cautionary Tale for America
Are Americans adapting, like Argentinians did, to long-term suffering punctuated by short-lived signs of relief?
Feb 29
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America’s DEI Commissars Threaten Freedom
America’s commissars spread the poisonous doctrine that society is based on some groups exercising their “privilege” at the expense of others.
Feb 26
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