Great Philosophers Who Failed At Love

Article first published as Great Philosophers Who Failed At Love on Technorati. Andrew Shaffer has created small love bios of 37 philosophers-from the ancients like Plato and Socrates to more modern love misfits like Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser.  From celibates to seemingly endless lines of lovers, the great philosophers offer an interesting view of sex, love, and people who think too much. Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love is a slim volume of only 192 pages, with each philosopher rarely getting more than three pages and a portrait.  It’s a fast read and the portraits show a group of…

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The Inner Game of Blogging

Timothy Gallwey’s brilliance was discovering that the subconscious has a lot more to do with success in sports than most people thought.  What we think, and when we think too much, can cause our performance to decline.  The same holds true with blogging, we can spend so much time looking for something to blog about that we never actually get around to writing anything.  Just start typing. I used to take blogging pretty seriously-I was pretty active on Blogcatalog, Technorati, and Digg.  Not so much now.  But recently I got a couple of emails asking me to check out their…

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