Making Your Own Decisions
Once you get to adulthood, you generally like to feel you’re calling the shots. But are we in a position to decide anything at all of our own free will as individual agents?
Looking at life through the prism of psychology, philosophy, mental health and more. Originally created by counsellor, psychotherapist and philosopher Dr Greg Mulhauser, this blog is now the work of an international team of contributors.
Once you get to adulthood, you generally like to feel you’re calling the shots. But are we in a position to decide anything at all of our own free will as individual agents?
The human urge to transcend physical existence and death is a powerful one. But is the application of so much human ingenuity in this direction a good idea?
Do joy and grief share something essential in common? And by cutting out one, do we end up cutting ourselves off from the other?
It’s time to examine the mental inbox. Have you been getting messages from yourself, read them and ignored them? Are you set permanently to ‘do not disturb’? Have you actually blocked your own number?
Money as we know it today is a system of exchange — but it is no longer a neutral system. It’s a sprawling, dominant monopoly that can leave individuals feeling worthless. Is there another way?
It seems not only that everyone is in pain, but that there’s an underlying assumption that we shouldn’t be, creating an extra layer of suffering on top of the pain itself.
My conviction is this: whatever you actually manage to do, with the sincere intention to improve your life, will work. There really is no shortage of methods. The trick is in managing to do the thing, whatever it is.
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