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Are Pride and Humility Good or Bad? (Affective Ethics)

January 3, 2018 Dominic Reichl

ethics pride humility

On the Ethics of Pride and Humility Definitions Pride is the pleasure you feel when you contemplate your strength, competence, or superiority. Humility is the pain you feel when you contemplate your weakness, incompetence, or inferiority. Affective Ethics According to a utilitarian reading of the above definitions, pride is inherently good (pleasurable) and humility inherently bad (painful). Yet if we look at all their potential consequences on well-being, the picture becomes more … [Read more...]

Blog emotions, ethics, mindcoolness, mindfulness, pride

The Lies Introverts Tell Themselves

December 17, 2017 Dominic Reichl

introvert personality

What is an introvert? Someone with a natural tendency to spend much of his time alone, to be quiet and reserved in social situations, and to reflect his opinions deeply, to analyze all the time. An extrovert, by contrast, is more inclined to be outgoing, to socialize and make new friends, and to express his opinions freely, to talk all the time. Introversion is simply an inclination, a tendency to behave in a certain way. Any personality is essentially just that—a set of behavioral … [Read more...]

Blog anxiety, mindfulness, psychology, success

Is Meditation an Escape from Reality?

October 5, 2017 Dominic Reichl

meditation escape

Sometimes when I talk to people about mindfulness meditation, it seems that what they imagine in their minds is a scene like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVCZmGkB4oo Even if I were to grant that there's something meditative happening in this scene, it's still far from any sort of mindfulness. "Find your power animal" is a spiritual visualization technique, not mindfulness meditation. Now let's look at a scene later in the … [Read more...]

Blog mindfulness, philosophy

What Archery Taught Me about Worry and Cooler States of Mind

October 4, 2017 Dominic Reichl

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Last Sunday I tried archery for the first time in my life. As always with such things, I was hooked immediately. If it weren't for dinner reservations, I wouldn't have stopped even after six hours of shooting arrows, blood-painting my arm, and straining my shoulder in a bliss of flowing joy. It took me a while to get somewhat comfortable with the primal weapon, but once I had roughly assimilated the basic motor patterns, I learned something fascinating. Whenever I wanted to hit gold, I … [Read more...]

Blog anxiety, embodied cognition, mindcoolness, mindfulness, psychology

Meditation Helps Addicts to Find Inner Peace and Recover (MPC#57 with Chris Shae)

September 19, 2017 Dominic Reichl

inner peace addiction

To live in mindcoolness means to have found inner peace. But this most precious state is not the end of a life's journey. You can enter that state as you are walking, no matter the rocks that hamper your way, no matter the grazes and wounds on your feet. You can live daily in inner peace, regardless of what you're struggling with. (Chris Shae) In this episode of the Mindcoolness podcast, I interview Chris Shae (@lifejourneyblog) about how mindfulness meditation helps people to deal with … [Read more...]

Blog addiction, mindfulness, philosophy

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