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How awareness shapes who you become and what you contribute
Attention as a moral and emotional choice
Jan 31 • Ivan | The Wisdomous
A guide to how first-half solutions create second-half suffering
A Jungian map for ambition, meaning, and midlife change
Jan 29 • Ivan | The Wisdomous
A Stoic approach to stepping out of unnecessary suffering
Marcus Aurelius on interpretation, emotional suffering, and freedom
Jan 27 • Ivan | The Wisdomous
How questioning your emotions can save you unnecessary suffering
Emotional intensity is information not the truth
Jan 24 • Ivan | The Wisdomous
Why the hardest part of any effort is what comes after
How to trust the space between effort and outcome
Jan 22 • Ivan | The Wisdomous
How to find time for what you love when you're tired!
Discipline gets you to the door; love gets you through it.
Jan 20 • Ivan | The Wisdomous
What did Bruce Lee mean by empty your mind?
Emptying your mind doesn’t mean not thinking. It means don’t let thinking trap you in rigid patterns.
Jan 15 • Ivan | The Wisdomous
What we’re really doing when we say “I’m here.”
When you’re providing what you don’t have because you need them to be okay so that you can be okay, that’s problematic.
Jan 13 • Ivan | The Wisdomous
You Can’t Outwork Someone Devoted to a Better Thing
Working hard on the wrong thing is still working hard, but it’s a slow form of failure, made worse by the fact that it feels like progress.
Jan 8 • Ivan | The Wisdomous
Why Intensity Is Overrated and Consistency Isn’t
Intensity makes a good story. Consistency makes progress
Jan 6 • Ivan | The Wisdomous
This Year, Pick Three Things
Why choosing less might finally move us forward
Jan 4 • Ivan | The Wisdomous
2026: The Year of Slowing Down.
I am tired in a way that makes me want to befriend emptiness rather than fill it.
Jan 1 • Ivan | The Wisdomous
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