I start a new corporate gig on Monday. I’m not particularly looking forward to it. I’ve been out of that environment for a couple of months now and it’s been great. Plus we’re now approaching high summer in Europe, the girls are all wearing butt-revealing cut-off denim shorts and there are a lot of people …
There are times when you just have to go off by yourself to think. The first time I realised this I was eighteen years old. I’d just finished college. It was our last day. The next step was university. All my college peers were off celebrating somewhere. I was alone, because I’ve always liked being …
Here are five things that I do every day that improve the quality of my life immeasurably. If you’re not doing these yourself then I recommend that you try them out starting today. 1.Read Above every other form of media you must read. What I really mean is books—you must read several pages from a …
Sometimes life is just a bloodbath and all you can do is struggle through the day, take the savage blows and and get to bed without doing yourself or anyone else any serious damage. Anyone who cannot see the bestial nature of life is not living it to its full. As I’ve said before, a recognition that …
Something about my article yesterday troubled me. After I’d written and published it, and received some feedback, I found myself wondering if it wasn’t just a little too dark. If so then I want to provide the antidote to that here, because if this site has one key mission it is to help everyone—myself included—to …
Listen, if I hear one more whiny, bullshit excuse about why you can’t pick up girls, why the city where you live is no good for game, about how girls are bitchy, how this one special girl didn’t respond to your text message, how your ex wife is draining all your cash from you, how …
One of the key questions of my life has been whether to select hedonism or stoicism as my governing philosophy. Even today the jury is still out, and I have a tendency to flit between the two. If, for the sake of this article, we are to define hedonism as the privileging of pleasure above all else then …
