Evan Hadkins’s Articles at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life

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Evan Hadkins has published the following articles at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life.

Learning to Be Ourselves

Last updated 2nd November 2009

How I eat at home now is quite different to how I ate when I was young. And yet, I don’t have a sense that my younger self wasn’t me — quite the opposite. The story of my learning which foods I like is “my” story.

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Are There Recipes for Living?

Last updated 27th October 2009

It seems to me that we all have our ‘recipes’ for living: cooking with a recipe means handling standard ingredients in standard ways, and likewise we have relatively set routines for handling familiar situations. These ‘recipes’ can lead to very high standards of performance.

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How Can We Talk About Our Spiritual Experience?

Last updated 19th October 2009

It seems to me that we need to speak about (or otherwise represent) our spiritual experiences. In most places it is hard to do this without embarrassment.

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Mindfulness, Habit and Your Comfort Zone

Last updated 7th October 2009

I prefer mindfulness over our usual experience. Others disagree: they advocate risk, ‘getting out of your comfort zone’, and so on.

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Patience is Not Easy

Last updated 28th September 2009

At the moment my time horizon is short, and the longer view is decidedly fluid. I feel that I am in a place where I just need to go step by step, and this can have a heavy and plodding feel.

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