The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases still recognises neurasthenia as a diagnosis. Symptoms of this modern life condition include fatigue, dyspepsia, irritability, headaches, impotence, insomnia, lethargy, premature baldness, depression and many more. The name, neurasthenia, was originally coined in 1869. A physician, E. Van Deusen, and a neurologist, George Beard, both independently came…
Month: January 2021
We can all be Great Thinkers
People rarely quote their next-door neighbour or their barista in a book or a speech. We (myself included) like to quote people with gravitas. Women and men who have achieved things, who are great thinkers, whom we look up to as persons with wisdom. Plato, Socrates, Pythagoras, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Darwin, Hume, Earhart, Sartre, Woolf, Einstein,…
Why we should care about what others think of us.
We are constantly told that what others think of us is none of our business. That we can’t please everyone, and that we shouldn’t care if others like us or not. And this ‘advice’ has evolved over the past decade. Now we have to be authentic. We all need to learn the ‘subtle art of…