On Millennial Burnout, Habits, and the Virtues to which we hold Ourselves

In 2019, I pledged, along with a small group of writers on Twitter, to do 20 push-ups a day this year, such that by the time 2019 has ended I will have done 7300 push-ups. It is a commitment I am holding myself to because I want to improve my physicality, and it is something…

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Better than we Are

Aristotle was the first (known) philosopher to posit that we can become better people. He thought we could do this by modifying our actions in such a way that acting morally became an unconscious habit, and that we could know what morality was by watching paragons of virtue and imitating them. Now, the interesting things (for today's…