Leave Aristotle Alone
Modern happiness culture quotes Aristotle constantly, and has him backwards. From Laurie Santos to the wider self-development industry, eudaimonia gets treated as a feeling you can measure, raise, and optimize. Aristotle meant the opposite: not a mood you rate from the inside, but the activity of a whole life lived well, formed through virtue, realized among others, and exposed to a fortune no...
The Professors and the Brain they Made Up
Arthur Brooks is out with a new book and selling the left-brain/right-brain framework on every podcast in America.
Unfortunately the neuroscience he's leaning on has been outdated for over twenty years.
This essay explains why the model is wrong, why it sells anyway, and why borrowing scientific authority for a worldview eventually costs you both.
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The Horse Does not Care about Your Story
Equine coaching is one of the fastest-growing modalities in leadership development. It is also one of the most intellectually compromised.
In this essay, I trace how mystical frameworks — mirrors, energy, vibrations — came to dominate the field, and make the case for a horsemanship and neuroscience-grounded approach that takes both the horse and the client seriously. The horse is not a mirro...
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