For as long as I can remember, these are the only real expectations that my parents have had of me. These two goals– which are just that, and not realized states – are the basis of what I consider to be wellness. To be well is to live in a way that prioritizes the happy and …
“The Devil is in the Details, but so is salvation” — Admiral Hyman G. Rickover Admiral Rickover — the American visionary who turned the idea of nuclear submarines from a pipe dream to a full-fledged reality — built an entire Nuclear Navy from scratch based on the principle of attention to detail. Over the 60+ …
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Gina Benson is a holistic Ayurveda nutritionist and yoga instructor who is also pursuing a career in midwifery. She is available for a remote nutrition consultation and feels free to contact her via gina@yogavedahealth.com. Also, feel free to visit her blog to learn more about nutrition, yoga, mindfulness, and her inspiring personal stories about how she persistently …
I’m a Duke University graduate who has studied philosophy and currently working in digital scholarship and publishing. The most memorable experiences that change us, that inspire us, that propel us into a transcendent mode, all result from our focus. When you look up the word “focus” on Wikipedia, a whopping 80 entries come up. It …
Descartes believes all true motions are relative. An object’s motion is always arbitrary because it can never hold as absolute property. The following example fully illustrates his concept of true motion and “vicinity”. Imagine a universe that has only two spaceships, nothing else, that are moving at the same speed in the same direction. When a person …
Newton believes space exists independently of and distinct from all bodies. He names this revolutionary and controversial idea of absolute space. With absolute space, Newton’s theories regarding space continue permitting relative space like past philosophers to define an object’s location through comparisons to other objects’ locations. What makes Newton’s idea on space unique is that …
In high school, I was on the cross country team, running at least four times a week. For me, a four-mile workout was nothing, and running nine miles put me in a state of euphoria. After my last season, I stopped running every week. And then I stopped completely. Now, I can barely run a …
Descartes argues that whenever he thinks, he exists. The context for this argument is that the person has no senses and no body, so everything in his/her imagination is false. He moves on to ask the question: Then what is real before we conclude that everything is fake? The answer to this question leads to …
During my freshman year of college, I decided to start running and going to the gym in order to improve my stamina and overall physical and mental health. Around this time I was stressed due to my courses and new work schedule, but I was also having trouble sleeping at night. My restlessness caused me …
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To advance physics, a young field at Immanuel Kant’s time, the nature of space and matter was a crucial question that requires discoveries through the marriage of metaphysics and geometry. He worries that the endless arguments in these fields about physics will stifle its growth. He wants to contribute to ending their debate about space …
