Pursuit of Wonder

Charles Bukowski On The Tragedies Of Ordinary Life - "The Shoelace Poem"

In this Bukowski poem entitled, "The Shoelace Poem," Bukowski invites the listener/reader to feel less alone in the insanity created by the simple, mundane string of ordi

The Desire to Not Exist

Go to https://brilliant.org/PursuitofWonder/ to get a 30-day free trial + the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual subscription. Thank you to Brilliant for spon

A Reason To Stop Worrying - Watch This Whenever You're Stressed Or Anxious

Get my new book, 'The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness': https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0FCDCCNJR?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=andrewsmcmeelpublishing-20Other retailers: htt

Follow No One. Trust Your Own Thoughts. | The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

Get 25% off Blinkist premium and enjoy 2 memberships for the price of 1! Start your 7-day free trial by clicking here: https://www.blinkist.com/pursuitofwonder or scannin

Bertrand Russell's Warning About The Future For This Generation - What Does Humanity Need?

Philosopher Bertrand Russell's warning for the future during an interview in 1959. As Bertrand Russell suggests, "If we wish to live together and not die together," perha

The Terrible Price We Pay For the Fear of Being Alone

The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/pursuitofwonder04231For a limited time (until April 30, 2023), Skillsha

Sprezzatura - The Secret To Good Style

If one wishes to be taken seriously in their artistic and performative endeavors, they must do it with good style. For some, good style is easy. For others, not so much.

Luck Always Beats Hard Work

Get 25% off Blinkist premium and enjoy 2 memberships for the price of 1! Start your 7-day free trial by clicking here: https://www.blinkist.com/pursuitofwonder or scannin

How Culture Makes Us Feel Lost - Dr. Gabor Maté On Finding Your True Self Again

Dr. Gabor Maté gives a beautiful speech on human nature and the implications culture has on our ability to maintain it. In this segment of the speech, he discusses four d

How the Way You Respond to Boredom Changes Your Life

Get my book "Millions of Little Threads" here: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Millions-of-Little-Threads/dp/B0BVT6JZVV/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Also av

Why You Shouldn't Trust What Anyone Tells You

It's important not to assume that the way things are or have been are the way things need to be. The way our family, friends, or society as a whole lives life on earth is

The Call of the Void - Where Do Horrible Thoughts Come From?

Get 25% off Blinkist premium and enjoy 2 memberships for the price of 1! Start your 7-day free trial by clicking here: https://www.blinkist.com/pursuitofwonder or scannin

What It Feels Like To Die (Animated Short)

A short animation with a timely message. We never know when the ending moment might come, only to realize what we already knew, but never did anything about.Shop Pursuit

Thought Experiments That Will Change How You Think About Life

Get 40% off Blinkist premium, only valid until the end of February! Enjoy 2 memberships for the price of 1 and start your 7-day free trial by clicking here: https://www.b

How We Might Be Living In Other Dimensions Without Knowing - A Neil deGrasse Tyson Visualization

In a 2017 interview, Neil deGrasse Tyson provides an incredible visual illustration to the concept of multidimensional phenomena. In which, he compares our inability to c

The Algorithm Effect - How An Entire Population Becomes Mentally Sick

Get my audiobook here: https://pursuitofwonder.com/product/millions-of-little-threadsAlso available on Audible here: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Millions-of-Little-Thr

Why You Can Change The World, But Shouldn't

The point isn't that we should never try to change the world.The point is that we shouldn't want to change the world for the sake of feeling significant by getting our na

This One Idea Will Change How You Think About Your Entire Life

Get my new book, The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness, here: https://www.amazon.com/Terrible-Paradox-Self-Awareness-Awareness-Beginning/dp/B0FCDCCNJR/ref=tmm_pap_swatch

5 Important Questions No One Knows The Answers To

New Pursuit of Wonder book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08D4VSD88There is so much known about humanity and the life we inhabit, but there is so, so much more unknown. It i

Millions of Little Threads

Get the complete audiobook here: https://pursuitofwonder.com/product/millions-of-little-threadsAlso available on Audible and Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-M