Awareness of your mindset is the portal to change
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Ben Sasse’s Warning: Reclaim Your Attention Before It’s Too Late
Historian, former Republican senator, and former college president Ben Sasse is dying of pancreatic cancer.
In a recent and profoundly moving interview, Sasse, who recently turned 54, offered wisdom on maintaining personal autonomy in our...
Seneca's Moral Letters, Session 2: The Work of Staying Awake
Notice how your mind portrays you as the innocent victim of outside forces.
Last week, we began with the foundational challenge: “Assert your own freedom.” We reflected on how our lifetime can slip away through inattention, attention on lo...
What 'Never Again' Demands of Each of Us
Top: Dr. Edith Eger, aspiring ballerina, before the Holocaust. Bottom: Dr. Eger, in her later years
Dr. Edith Eger died on April 27, 2026, in San Diego. She was 98. She had survived Auschwitz, several death marches, and was pulled from a...
Seneca's Moral Letters, Session 1: Whose Life Are You Actually Living?
Assert your freedom.
Right at the beginning of his first letter to Lucilius, Seneca advised his friend, “Assert your own freedom.” You will find that idea echoing throughout all of Seneca’s 124 moral letters.
You Are Not the Victim You Think You Are
Beginning this Saturday, the next Mindset Shifts U course on Seneca's Letters on Ethics begins. Seneca’s letters are one of the great practical guides ever written for anyone serious about stripping away the self-deceptions that keep us fro...
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Educator and the author of The Inner-Work of Leadership; contributing writer at the American Institute for Economic Research and the Foundation for Economic Education. Mindset Shifts U is a book study feature of his Substack, Mindset Shifts.
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