Richard 
‘What does not kill me, makes me stronger’. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888 Our lives are easy in many ways. Most of us are not starving, we have a roof over our heads, water, clothes, entertainments, and more. We have defeated numerous threats like diseases, starvation, and lawlessness. The standards of living have … Read more
I just can’t be bothered sometimes. I’ve tried a variety of things in my years. Now I’m writing, painting, looking towards starting an online business and selling my work. I have all these ideas, yet my desire to see them realised waxes and wanes. I even doubt if I really want these things, whether I … Read more
When things go repeatedly wrong we can get it into our heads that somehow the world is out to get us. We have needs and wants and we get angry, upset or down when they’re not met. It’s something I’ve had to face myself. In my own immaturity I once thought there was something wrong … Read more
I’ve suffered from low self-esteem all my life. Yet it’s only in the past few years that I’ve really come to realise it’s importance for everything else that I want. Low self-esteem is like Impostor Syndrome. But where you normally doubt your skill and competence in a particular field, here it encompasses your whole life. … Read more
There’s an emptiness I often feel that makes it hard to find meaning in my life. A feeling of desolation. It’s not lack of energy, it can’t be. I have enough to eat. I want to do some work, I just don’t feel motivated to do anything. Also, I always seem to question and doubt … Read more
I don’t believe that reading self-help books is a bad idea. Yet the reputation of the self-help industry and its ideas is tarnished and deservedly so. Some of what we believe about ourselves and how we function comes across as pseudoscience nonsense in a new age of woo. We fail to do the necessary due … Read more