Category Archives: personal development

What Intellectuals Get Wrong. (Contrasting Nietzsche, Hoffer, Marx; and the Mindsets of the Masses, Intellectuals, Elites.)

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Steven Yates

Nietzsche disdained the masses. Eric Hoffer loved them. How should we navigate the vast differences in mindset between intellectuals such as Nietzsche, the masses as Hoffer saw them, and elites who oversee society. What should intellectuals do if they are serious about helping to build a better world? Continue reading →

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Superpowers (With Notes on Rules Versus Controls)

Posted on April 27, 2022 by Steven Yates

What are superpowers? Do we all have them? How do we develop them? How does formal education interfere with them? How has industrial civilization interfered with their free development and use within populations? Do the activities of ruling elites have something to do with this? How do we take our lives back? Continue reading →

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Back to Basics (3). Self-Improvement As a Core Value

Posted on April 22, 2022 by Steven Yates

Self-improvement is the final core value, and so this completes this series of three articles. Stoicism is the ancient philosophy that merges philosophy generally with self-improvement, and perhaps this is why there is so much interest in Stoicism today. Continue reading →

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