Archive for January, 2012
Summary of Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness, Epicurus on Happiness (Part 2)
A few weeks ago, I started a six-part blog series to summarize a fascinating film titled Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness. Part one was about Socrates’ thoughts on self-confidence. Part two focuses on Epicurus and what he believed humans can do to find happiness.
Epicurus spent his life chasing happiness and was led to conclude [...]
My Skydiving Footage
Before I was ever serious about poker, I was a pretty avid skydiver. In the summer of 2004, I made my first jump and was immediately hooked. I spent that fall grinding online poker games to have enough money to travel to Florida over winter break where I could go through an Advanced Freefall (AFF) [...]
Movie Grades 4Q 2011
I saw a pitiful number of movies last quarter. That was mostly due to moving to Mexico where the theaters, which are actually nicer than you might think, usually don’t offer a particularly thrilling lineup. Not having Netflix was killer, too.
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Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness – I started a blog series breaking down each [...]
Some Habits I Would Like to Cultivate
While it’s a little arbitrary, I think the spirit of New Year’s which gives people a chance to reflect and make changes in their life makes it a great celebration. I was reading some thoughts Leo Babauta shared on habits today and was feeling inspired. He suggests trying to form just one positive habit per [...]
