Philosophy
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience is the attempt by positive psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to explain and encourage the idea of enjoying life. Much of the field of psychology is concerned with why people don't enjoy life; positive psychologists want to understand why some people do enjoy it, even though in many cases they have similar situations to those who don't. The concept of Flow is used to describe a state of enjoyment which people in all walks of life can reach regardles
I like Glenn Beck but sometimes I don't like him for the same reason I dislike Jon Stewart. Most of my conservative friends don't like Jon Stewart because he is too liberal. I don't like him because he takes himself too seriously. If you are going to be an entertainer... entertain me but don't ask me to take you seriously. If you want to be taken seriously... then stop hiding behind humor and enter a serious dialogue. Glenn Beck isn't necessarily a humorist but he is firmly ensconced in the
The Tea Party craze lately has been bringing Libertarian politics to the forefront and at the same time Objectivist philosophy has been bubbling up here and there across our national conscious. I have a number of acquaintances and colleagues who consider themselves followers of objectivist thinking and they have encouraged me (it didn't take much) to learn more about the topic. Accordingly I borrowed a copy of Ayn Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology and happened to get a copy of th