I’m undertaking the Coursera Course: Know Thyself: The Value of an UnExamined Life by the University of Edinburgh as something to pass the time in my day and it’s been interesting so far. Certainly, I’m not doing this for any accreditations but merely, learning for myself…because why not? (In all honesty, I wanted to do […]
Know Thyself
I have started a MOOC on Coursera called Know Thyself by the University of Ediburgh. I’ve always been a fan of these online courses (despite a lot of people bagging them out) because as a self-driven learner, I like how the course is free – and that it is set out in a way that […]
The Art of Life: Just Play, Just Be
Today after doing a bit of gutter cleaning while the tradespeople worked on our back yard, I decided to come back into the house and contemplate what’s next on my ‘To Do’ list. It’s a bit weird to not have things to do to a certain time line – time, well, it’s open now. I […]
Weekly Rapts
Welcome to Weekly Rapts. Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos, tweets and other stuff that captures my attention and inspires me to action which could be to write about a blog post; have a conversation about it with someone; create something from it; escape down a rabbit warren to learn more […]
Rhetoric on Marketing and Greek Philosophy
Last night I picked up a copy of Aristotle’s Ethics that was on our dining table and flicked through to Book 4 on “Other Moral Virtues” in particularly, the section in 1127b4-24 titled “The boaster or exaggerator”. (I don’t want to give you the idea that I have philosophy books casually discarded around the house. […]