In order to understand what might originally have caused certain behavioural responses to problems and symptoms I often carry out thought experiments where I imagine how humans might have behaved at the dawn of our species. In this article I explain some of my conclusions. This is a long essay so take a while just to sit back and enjoy some speculation.

Getting verbally abused in public is not a pleasant experience, whether we respond with outright expressions of anger or whether we seethe quietly with barely suppressed rage it’s something that we want to put an end to. We can do this through a thorough understanding of the cause and how to overcome it and also by coming up with better responses for it when it does happen.

I got severely out of kilter of late and lapsed back into bad behaviors. Fortunately, I brought all of my theories and understandings of how the mind works to bear and so it didn’t last long because I quickly recognized what was happening and how to adjust.

This article focuses on the essential practice of understanding and then controlling the desires that we have in order to free ourselves of negative emotions and to maintain a healthy mind and attitude. This article is 2300 words long and will take about 10-minutes to read.

This article describes how I came to question conventional wisdom and how I came to create my own pragmatic theory on how the mind works. This article is 2300 words long and will take about 10-minutes to read.