It’s been a little while since I’ve sat down with a cup of coffee and done a podcast about a Great Book. I’ve been working hard behind the scenes putting together video lectures on Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Freud, Plato, and more over at the Hardcore Literature Book Club. There’s a great discussion going on right now, […]
How to Heal Your Trauma with Literature (A Guide to Bibliotherapy)
Bibliotherapy can heal your trauma. But what is bibliotherapy? And how can we put it into practice? This episode of Hardcore Literature goes deep into how we can live the great books and read therapeutically in order to soothe, combat, and defeat mental anguish stemming from trauma. How to Heal Your Trauma with Literature (A […]
How to Cure Lockdown Depression (A Roadmap to Meaning)
If lockdown has got you feeling like a rat in a box, you’re not alone. Endless deprivation of human contact, no variation in environment, long periods of sedentariness, and perhaps even falling foul of the COVID 15 – gaining fifteen pounds of lockdown weight from mindless binge comfort-eating. Bloating and inflammation and existential ennui. This […]
An Oxford Student Reviews Mindvalley’s Super Reading with Jim Kwick
I never thought I would find a decent speed-reading course. I thought I’d just need to create my own as part of Hardcore University. And then I found Mind Valley’s Super Reading 3-Week Video Course and I was blown away. Now I don’t need to create my own speed-reading course, because Jim Kwik and MindValley […]
15 Lessons Learnt about Reading, Readers & Life from 2020
2020 was my deepest reading year to date. The year I got the most out of the great books, considered the most, and felt the most connected to the wellspring of humanity. Here are 15 lessons I’ve learnt: Most people want to have read something, rather than actually read it. I noticed this in myself […]
Reading and Life Goals for 2021
2020 was a crazy year. But let’s look to 2021 and set some aspirational reading and living goals. Good reading is good living, and how you read your books (indeed, what books you read) transfers to every other part of your life. We’re talking about book clubs, reading plans, goals, roles, mantras, personal manifestos, breathing, […]
How to Embrace Your Positive Non-Toxic Masculinity
The new-norm is a degenerate culture that praises mediocrity and refuses to embrace the good God that is manifest inside us. Look to what the masses sedate themselves with. Look to what the mainstream praises and holds up as aspirational. And there you will find the real toxicity: Netflix-and-Chill Following orders without question Neglecting your […]
How to Use Tarot to Solve Your Problems
Tarot readings get a bad rap as being woo-woo, but regular tarot readings, along with a unique way of looking at art, are one of the best tools in my self-development arsenal. Real tarot can help you solve your problems and provide you with solid life advice. In this video, I run through my two […]
How To Access Flow State
A man whose name I can’t pronounce, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, popularised the term ‘flow’. But what does flow mean? And how do you access flow state? How do you know when your work and life is in flow? How To Access Flow State There’s a lot of different ways to express this idea of flow: Deep […]
7 Ways to Reform the Broken Educational System
The educational system is broken. There’s a vacuum that needs to be filled. It will either be filled with a quality paradigm shift, or filled with people opting out, dropping out, and more of the same. I’ve thought a lot about education over the last decade. I’ve been a teacher and lecturer for years now. […]
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