Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators

 

~ Stephen Fry

Stop watching. Start doing

More content is loaded on to YouTube in 60 days than has ever been broadcast in America for 60 years.

It isn’t always easy to locate the moment mildly addictive behavior becomes self-destructive, even in retrospect.

There’s an old adage which says that the reason smokers don’t believe a cigarette can kill them is because a cigarette has never killed them before...

Get help to quit smoking: hse.ie/quit-smoking 

The Ship of Theseus and the Question of Identity

The Ship of Theseus was rebuilt over the centuries as wood rotted and broke, so at what point did it stop being the original, and when did it become something else? 

Within the span of seven years, every cell of your body will die and be replaced—you literally are not the same person you once were. 

If this is the case, where lies our identity and psyche? 

At what point does an object become different? 

When we talk about a certain object and say that “it changed,” what exactly is “it”?

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Fear and doubt are natural – embrace them. 

Idea doubt is healthy, 

Self-doubt is not.