👨🏻🍳 My tasting menu to enhance your emotional resilience
Reading time: Kind of long Aloha, PhiloSurfer! This week’s newsletter is about one simple idea. Only one. But a crucial one. Emotional Resilience We are going to reflect on the different techniques the wisest philosophers have used to: ⬆ increase their emotional well-being & ⬇ reduce their existential angst. And, more importantly, how can we […]
🌾 5 life-lessons to surf your potential
When I worked 60-hour weeks, I was struggling with anxiety. 15 years later, I just appreciate being way over having. Here’s what those stressful years taught me about life goals: – Lesson 1: Expect less, appreciate more Back then, I used to reflect on how to become rich & make more money. Despite being still […]
⛱️ Ride the waves of worry no more!
I used to resist anxiety with all my heart. Take, for instance, what happened to me in 2011. I was eager to find funding to continue my doctoral dissertation. I applied to one of the few fellowships available, but didn’t get it. Without it, I could not return to Southern Mexico to complete my Social […]
🌟 1, 2, 3… Dare to Know Your Self!
It’s a common-held belief. “People can’t change.” You hear it on the street. People text it on their phones about their acquaintances. It’s all over the Internet. This idea makes you feel good. Good in an egotistical kind of way. It saves you from going deeper into thinking. About yourself, your goals, your desires. It’s […]
Summertime: Read these 3 surfing books
Heya, PhiloSurfer! Summer holidays are finally here. So, time has come to spend time slowly. Slow cooking, slow napping, and slow reading. Time is like a dough. It’s elastic. The slower you knead, to longer the it becomes. This week, I want to recommend some offline, old-school, book readings. Get rid of your phone. Grab […]
Lao-Surf: 2 Opposites Not Only Attract
Aloha, PhiloSurfer! This week’s newsletter is a short & straightforward one. Its only purpose is to make you reflect on the relation of opposites & the non-conventional view that Taoism holds about them. Long story short, you can’t get one thing without the other – its opposite. It’s like reeling in too hard from one […]
It’s about time: Nietzsche’s Groundhog Day
Aloha, PhiloSurfer! This last week I’ve been sharing with you one of my biggest fears. Namely, wasting my life without even noticing. As Thoreau wrote: “When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.” I dunno if life has meaning. But not knowing what to do with it & just […]
The Very Bearable Lightness of Being
Aloha, my dearest PhiloSurfer! Are you ready to shake your beliefs with some surfing & philosophy? Bring it on! Life shouldn’t be a burden Life is actually one of the lightest things ever. Like a feather. Like water spray. “Life’s absurd.” You hear them complaining. “Existence is meaningless.” As if life cares about it the […]
Easiest Questioning 101: ChatGPT vs Socrates
Aloha, fellow PhiloSurfer! How are you this week? Good? Wanna feel even better? Let’s get things moving: Socrates is undoubtedly the father of self-development. I repeat: Undoubtedly. The father of self-development. The Cheapest Life Coach I like to picture Socrates as a life coach. The best of his kind. The real creator of his niche for […]
Ego & Surfboards: Softening Your Inner Core (2/2)
Aloha, PhiloSurfer! This is the second part of the reflection on Self-Less-Ness. If you missed the first part or are a new subscriber (welcome!), you can read last week’s newsletter about surf blanks, the inner self & the ego. A quick reminder of what we saw there: Some people think we’re made of a soft […]