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Survival

I’m currently reading Robert Greene’s excellent book, The Laws of Human Nature. The basic premise is that all of us act in ways that are largely unconscious, often driven by our shadow side – the aspects of our character we prefer to keep hidden. As social creatures, our success in life depends on our ability to integrate with others. The…

Blogging with Eskimos

‘Here I am, pen frozen in hand, trying to write letters in a snowdrift. The last time I received any correspondence from home, the starving dogs outside my tent had eaten the last of my salt tack. Life gets harder. I’ve used up the last of my flares. The blackness of the night sky was lit up temporarily, and as these…