by Tim Denning | Feb 6, 2023 | Life
The phrase “man up” never cured world hunger. Yet young men like me hear it all the time. Just have more discipline. Just work harder. My question is always, why? As a former depressed young man that suffered in silence for decades, this is a topic close to my heart....
by Tim Denning | Jan 30, 2023 | Life
A whole bottle of Jim Bourbon. That’s what I used to enjoy when I got home from a job working in a paper factory. The job was soul-crushing. We’d stick labels on pallets. We’d take stacks of paper off one pallet and manually package them into smaller parcels to be...
by Tim Denning | Jan 23, 2023 | Life
Trivial things quietly ruin our lives. It’s almost as if life is a game and someone larger than life sprinkled a bunch of silly distractions in front of all the paths we could take. It pains me to see. The title of this article is a quote I butchered from Fight Club...
by Tim Denning | Jan 23, 2023 | Life
Before you have a wet dream over these stoic ideas, I have something to share. One of the most quoted historical figures in stoicism, Marcus Aurelius, also called the godfather of self-improvement, was an opium junkie. I tell you this so you remember that all ideas...
by Tim Denning | Jan 23, 2023 | Life
Strangers on the internet can be heartless. The other day I posted a happy photo of my 9 week old daughter and me on the couch. The photo just lights me up. She’s better than winning the lottery or driving a Lambo. But a random tweet reply left me speechless. The...
by Tim Denning | Jan 16, 2023 | Life
It’s rare a Youtube video leaves me in tears. A week ago that happened. A channel for self-improvement junkies posted a video called “The Brain Hack That Changed My Life.” The clickbait made my brain ooze self-improvement juices out my nostrils. I watched the video...
