Ian Daniel Stewart

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  • How I Became A Morning Person, Read More Books, And Learned A Language In A Year

    Sharing mostly as a reminder to myself that I can do this. From Belle Beth Cooper who did actually did all those things in that clickbait title. I came across this idea of starting small. The point is to focus on repeating the habit every day, but not worrying about how effective that habit is.…

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  • Getting to Know the Older Brother I Never Knew I Had

    I don’t really share many very “personal life” stories on my blog here but, sorry to spoil the ending, I think this is an exciting and surprising event worth celebrating publicly. 3 months ago, on May 14, my parents let me know I have an older brother. Like, a secret, long lost, older brother. Five…

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  • Seneca on faith in self-improvement 

    I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith. From Seneca’s letter on Reformation in the context of trying to improve, with Stoic advice, a “hardened” forty-year old “past handling.”

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  • Seneca on Treacherous Goods

    Fix a limit which you will not even desire to pass, should you have the power. At last, then, away with all these treacherous goods! They look better to those who hope for them than to those who have attained them. If there were anything substantial in them, they would sooner or later satisfy you;…

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  • Literary Theory: Transform and roll out!

    The definition of “Authorial Intention” offered by Google (and the first result if you use “intent” as a keyword instead of “intention”) is from … THE TRANSFORMERS WIKI. The Internet is an amazing place.

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