Barcelona: One of The World’s Greatest Cities
Ever since I first went to Barcelona in 2006, the city has had a powerful effect on me. Barcelona, a city located on the Mediterranean and near the Spanish border with France, oozes with cultures, life and beauty. After going back twice in the last year, and every time becoming learning more and more about the city, I decided that it is without a doubt my favorite city in the world (at least of all the tones I’ve visited).
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Progress
So far I’ve been writing about the mentalities, strategies and attitudes behind my goals. After reading this post by Karol Gajda I thought it was about time to post my progress following the strategies I have laid out.
To begin, with my current goals revolve around fitness, food, Japanese, studying and blogging. here is my progress.
Blogging: I have been learning as much as possible as well as coming up with tons of ideas for what to write about. Most… Continue reading
The Art of Making Progress: 4 Principles
In the modern world, an overwhelming amount of information and result-oriented mentalities have lead many of us to become extreme rationalizers. For the most part rationalizing is something is sensible and healthy –don’t do something stupid–. But on the other hand rationalization can be a crutch, as well as a barrier preventing people from accepting reality (by protecting their egos) and taking responsibilities for their actions. Furthermore rationalization will lead to paradoxes due to human behavior, for the most part,… Continue reading
Great, Niche food spots: Boston
I’m not a huge fan of Boston as a city. It has tons of inflated prices, a horrible metro system, tons of pretentiousness and trendiness, yet an underlying traditional puritan spirit in some parts as if to show that they are different.
But, there are some things that truly blow me away. For one it’s clean, rarely do I walk around filling like stuff is abandoned or disheveled. Second restaurants are constantly filled, seriously, past 7 for some reason every… Continue reading
Freedom versus safety
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.- Benjamin Franklin
While surfing the net today I found the above quote by Benjamin Franklin and thought to myself, this is the plague of all first world democracy’s. To put it bluntly.
If you live in a First-World country and if you or any of your closest friends and family have no serious illness you have no problems. All other problems are man-made.
So many people in modern… Continue reading
Embracing the difference, not the majority
I have always been extremely surprised at how varied and different people’s lives are. I have always been a bit “different”. I never really cared for society’s largely illogical and baseless rules. Ever since I was small I always thought of myself as “anti-social” not because I didn’t talk to people (I was young and outgoing) but rather because I never felt doing something solely cause Society’s said so made sense.
Society’s power is subtle, yet powerful. It pulls and tugs from all direction from a variety of… Continue reading