Life Fairness

I've recently become interested in "remarkable human beings", like people that live really interesting/impressive lives and do really interesting/impressive things. So just now I googled and found this website. I didn't get past the first article before I wanted to stop and write a blog post, so here it goes. Depending on when you are reading this, you'll see the first article on the site is about a 17 year old kid. You can read the full article...

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Viktor Frankl

This post piggy backs my last post about what I've been noticing about humans and the impact of our attitudes. You can read that post here. The name in the title of the post is the name of a man that who had just about as tragic of a life as you can imagine. He and his family were imprisoned during the holocaust in Nazi Germany. I read about him while reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I don't really see a point in re-summarizing the story, so here's a quote from the book written by Stephen Covey himself: Frankl was a determinist...

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Attitude is Everything

My good friend Anthony Cooper sent me a link to this blog post the other day and it really had an effect on me. The blog author didn't write it, it's actually a graduation speech given by a man named David Foster Wallace. It's a pretty lengthy post, so I'm sure that most of you won't bother to read it, but if you have like ten minutes I promise it's really worth your time. For now I'm going to summarize it and then share some of my thoughts. The bulk of the article, or at least the part that I liked the most, talked all about human attitude and...

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First Year in the Real World

So over the last four months I have graduated from college, acquired a full time job, and moved out of my parents house for good. I am approaching the one week mark of being on my own (with two roommates), and I gotta say doing all of this real life stuff makes you think about a whole lot of things. I've always heard that the first couple years out of college are awkward, scary, overwhelming, and kind of depressing. I've always been confident enough to think that every year of my life is going to be fantastic and everything will just keep getting...

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