Many people consider addiction to be a problem of personal weakness, initiated for self-gratification and continued because of an unwillingness or lack of sufficient willpower to stop. However, within the medical and scientific communities, the notion that pleasure-seeking exclusively drives addiction has fallen by the wayside. Clinicians and scien…

Seneca, Paul, and Bishop DD

The first daily stoic is actually a tricky one.@followersIn my opinion, a lot of what happens to us everyday is profoundly affected by the decisions we made in the past. The sum of all those decisions has an enormous influence in what will happen to us today.Thus, apart from purely external, random events (forces of nature, accidents, etc), I would…

Dwayne Johnson - He’s one of Hollywood’s highest paid actors, but “The Rock” recently opened up about depression to the Express, a British newspaper. “Struggle and pain is real,” said Johnson, who saved his mother from a suicide attempt when he was 15. “Depression never discriminates,” he tweeted later. “Took me a long time to realize it but the ke…

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Marcus Aurelius Agree it"s: ‘Unrealistic’ humans alone in universe “Think of the whole universe of matter and how small your share. Think about the expanse of time and how brief—almost momentary—the part marked for you. Think of the workings of fate and how infinitesimal your role.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.24More th…