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Tessa Schlesinger - Stoic. Published 60 years.
Tessa Schlesinger - Stoic. Published 60 years.

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·3 hours ago

The Problem with Parents, Children, and Schooling

Past the first few years of school, I never learnt anything useful. — Somewhere in Proverbs, there is a verse that runs “Train up a child in the way he should go, and he will return to it.” What it really means is indoctrinate your child early, and he is highly unlikely to chose a different path. …

Education

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The Problem with Parents, Children, and Schooling
The Problem with Parents, Children, and Schooling
Education

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·1 day ago

On Becoming Invisible — It Happens

There’s a point at which you hit a certain age, and all of a sudden everyone thinks you’re stupid… — For most of my life I have been noticed. Perhaps, you have been as well. You walked up to a counter, and people paid immediate attention to you. You were hitching a ride, and someone stopped within minutes. You had a problem at the bank, and everybody was falling over…

Life

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On Becoming Invisible — It Happens
On Becoming Invisible — It Happens
Life

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·4 days ago

Will Ron DeSantis Really Destroy the Left?

He says so. I don’t doubt that he will try. — Of course, the left was destroyed a long time ago. Between Reagan, Clinton, and Thatcher, any left that remains in the either the UK or US is in name only. The role of the left was never the implementation of human rights — that used to be shared between both…

Government

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Will Ron DeSantis Really Destroy the Left?
Will Ron DeSantis Really Destroy the Left?
Government

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·5 days ago

Are Hairdressers Really This Dumb?

The owner said that 65% of non-return clients did so because the hairdresser hadn’t listened to the client… — I have dead straight hair. I admit that earlier in my life, there wasn’t much you could do with it. It was very dark, and very straight. So imagine my consternation when, on several occasions, a couple of hairdressers told me that I had curly hair, and that nothing on…

Hair

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Are Hairdressers Really This Dumb?
Are Hairdressers Really This Dumb?
Hair

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·May 27

How Traditional Chinese Medicine Cured Me When Doctors Couldn’t

And here we are — it’s happening again! — It was shortly after I arrived in London to live there — for the second time. For nearly a year in South Africa, I had shooting pains in my thighs. They worried me. …

Healing

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How Traditional Chinese Medicine Cured Me When Doctors Couldn’t
How Traditional Chinese Medicine Cured Me When Doctors Couldn’t
Healing

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·May 26

Why Tina Turner’s Life Makes Me Ashamed of Mine

What an incredible woman! Tina Turner was never a victim I take my hat off to Tina Turner. I bow in great humility to someone who was truly human. She epitomized what it was to live with pain, PTSD, and one health crises after another throughout her life, and never breathe a word about her loss…

Tina Turner

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Why Tina Turner’s Life Makes Me Ashamed of Mine
Why Tina Turner’s Life Makes Me Ashamed of Mine
Tina Turner

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May 24

Climate Change — I Told You So!

Recycling is bs, as are carbon credits, and there is only one way! — Like Cassandra, I often say things that are unpopular. For a decade and a half, I’ve been saying that the only way to defeat climate change is to cut energy use, to stop half of all manufacturing, and that the reason that politicians don’t do anything is that they can’t…

Climate Change

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Climate Change — I Told You So!
Climate Change — I Told You So!
Climate Change

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May 23

When Politics and Governance are Misaligned…

Politicians are no longer focused on good governing, and there’s a reason. — There was a time when a politician’s job was to govern the country. This had more to do with administration. …

Government

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When Politics and Governance are Misaligned…
When Politics and Governance are Misaligned…
Government

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May 23

What a Friend Said to Me About Therapy

I have her permission to post it verbatim — as she wrote it. — A few weeks ago, I applied to get six free sessions on my medical insurance. I was declined on the basis that I needed long term therapy, and they didn’t provide it. As always, the people completely ignored all the assessments that I provided. …

Change

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What a Friend Said to Me About Therapy
What a Friend Said to Me About Therapy
Change

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·May 19

The Real Reason You Can’t Lose Weight

Fat cells reincarnate — I kid you not! — I’ve lost all my weight a couple of times in my life. I know how to eat, what to eat, and how to burn up energy. What I could never figure out was why it was so quick to return (at twice the speed of light) Then a little while…

Fat

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The Real Reason You Can’t Lose Weight
The Real Reason You Can’t Lose Weight
Fat

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Tessa Schlesinger - Stoic. Published 60 years.

Tessa Schlesinger - Stoic. Published 60 years.

4.8K Followers

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