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#28 🔸 How to train your mind to see oportunities, not just obstacles

28 Aug 2025 1 minute read 2 comments luciman

Have you ever looked at a situation and only seen the difficulties, while someone else immediately found a solution or even an opportunity?It’s not about luck. It’s about mental training. Why do we see obstacles first? Psychology explains through the...

#27 🔸 Why the fear of change holds us back and how to turn it into an ally

27 Aug 2025 1 minute read 1 comment luciman

Have you ever felt like you wanted to make a change — switch jobs, start investing, improve your relationships — but something invisible seemed to hold you back?You’re not alone. That “force” has a name: the fear of change. Where does the fear of cha...

When you learn to lose, you actually begin to win #36

26 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments luciman

Have you ever thought that the greatest lessons in life don’t come when everything goes well, but when you fail?Many people run away from failure, seeing it as an enemy, but the truth is that it’s precisely failure that makes us stronger and wiser. W...

#26 🔸 Why we self-sabotage and how to break the pattern

26 Aug 2025 1 minute read 1 comment luciman

Have you ever noticed how, just when things start going well, you take a wrong step that seems to pull you backwards?Whether it’s about money, career, or relationships, self-sabotage is one of the most subtle mechanisms through which our mind blocks...

THUCYDIDES, 460 - 400 BC: The Birth of Scientific History

25 Aug 2025 9 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked

What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta. — Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, 1.23   In the long tapestry of Greek history, few names stand as tall or austere as that of Thucyd...

A View of Donald Trump's Second Presidency

25 Aug 2025 3 minute read 3 comments rah

Donald Trump's second presidency, which began in January 2025, has sparked intense debate across the political spectrum. While his supporters hail his return as a restoration of conservative values and executive strength, I would argue that his secon...

The Art Machine

25 Aug 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"There’s a blue eyed devil manThinks he’s king of the worldBut he cannot buy our soul"Lila Downs   The most tiresome, obvious problem with people who like to pretend it's 2006, that dragging out the same, tired old presidential infant floats in diape...

The Bell Hotel, It Tolls For Thee

24 Aug 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Never send to know for whom thebell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne The following is a statement issued by the UK Home Office, explaining why I wasn't welcome in the UK. Dated 15 May 2013. Full testimony linked below. COH ID #19619096 To: NAT...

Eternal Rickshine of the Spotless Morty

23 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

I've been watching a lot of Rick and Morty lately, since I've been doing a lot of looking after my parents' aging pooch (which mostly sleeps) while they go out and have fun. Although it's supposed to be light-hearted Science fiction not meant to be t...

Enjoy Your Soup

23 Aug 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

19 years ago today (8/22), the Korean Broadcast System interviewed me in New York about dissent in America after 9/11. A quaint issue by today's standards. They even used my song "George Bush, What's Your Problem?" as the bumper music. These are the...