Soulful Sundays: Dunbar's Number
In 1990s Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, developed a controversial theory about the upper reaches of the human brain for social...
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Blake Storey
- Jul 18, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Pain
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." -TPB Temporarily ignore any negative associations with the...
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Blake Storey
- Jul 11, 2021
- 3 min
Soulful Sundays: Group Health
When I was in grad school I had the pleasure of being taught by an exceptional teacher. Not only was he talented in the practice of...
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Blake Storey
- Jul 4, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Freedom in Surrender
An old Buddhist parable goes something like this: Two monks, one elder, one younger, were chatting quietly as they walked the old road...
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Blake Storey
- Jun 27, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Small Victories
Just the other day I was able to do something that I hadn't been able to do prior to this year. I did several handstand pushups in a row...
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Blake Storey
- Jun 20, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Labels
Language is one of the unique characteristics of being human. No other animal on the planet has the same command and diversity of verbal...
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Blake Storey
- Jun 13, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Grease the Groove
Ernest Hemingway, one of the most prolific American authors, had a habit of routinely leaving his work unfinished each night before bed. ...
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Blake Storey
- Jun 6, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Friction
"To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this...
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Blake Storey
- May 30, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Drug-Free America
drug - "a medicine or substance that has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body." The United States...
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Blake Storey
- May 23, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: The Void
"Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also...
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Blake Storey
- May 16, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Selflessness
"There is no self to be dissolved, only the notion of self to be transcended." -Thich Nhat Hanh Self is a notion of separation from other...
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Blake Storey
- May 9, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Three Different Ways
Depression has been rising like a steady tide in modern times. Suicide rates are at an all time high. Doctors are prescribing...
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Blake Storey
- May 2, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Remember Why
Many wonderful projects begin with high hopes and sound intentions, but when progress grinds to a halt, those original feelings of...
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Blake Storey
- Apr 25, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Restraint
"True power is not having to use it." -I Ching We live in a culture of action. One in which dogged determination and independent spirit...
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Blake Storey
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: The Cards You're Dealt
"Resulting" is a term coined by former World Series Poker Champion, Annie Duke. It describes a behavior common in people to judge the...
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Blake Storey
- Apr 11, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Cognitive Dissonance
There comes a moment in everyone's life where the black and the white no longer make sense. The clear delineation between right and...
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Blake Storey
- Apr 4, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: Memento Mori
“Learn how to die well and you will know how to live well.” -Unknown Despite spring being a time of birth, there has been a lot of death...
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Blake Storey
- Mar 28, 2021
- 3 min
Soulful Sundays: Time Budget
Happy Spring Everyone, Have you been busy? It feels like I have been quite busy recently. I've had new business endeavors, a baby to...
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Blake Storey
- Mar 21, 2021
- 7 min
Soulful Sundays: Sleep
I wrote last week about Daylight Savings Time and its deleterious effects on sleep. This week I want to give you some practical things...
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Blake Storey
- Mar 14, 2021
- 2 min
Soulful Sundays: DST
Happy Daylight Savings Time! Personally, I am not a fan of DST. Namely because of its effects on sleep and other measures of health. ...
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