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People will go to incredible lengths to protect their self-image. [ As much as we have the capacity to feel guilt over things we shouldn't feel guilty about, we also have the ability to smother that guilt and avoid it by stretching the truth, minimizing the seriousness of things, and blaming others. I don't entirely fault people for this.

A lot of people inherit money at some point in their life. But others inherit something far more valuable, and a lucky few might even inherit both. I've been one of those fortunate people who periodically has been gifted money from family members in the past. Nothing to make me rich, but more like a little here and a little there. Every time it happened though, it felt like a godsend, but of course, I'm not sure there's ever an untimely time for money to arrive. But as he

When I was a kid, there was a drink that was popular called Sunny Delight. I think they still sell it, but it's nowhere near as prevalent as it used to be. You might call it a type of orange juice, but that might be too generous of a term. I think maybe a more appropriate name might be orange flavored sugar.

What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on this show, that we can all learn to live our lives just a little more intentionally. This is Seth Roberts. Thanks for joining me on Skipping Stones - “We Need Words.” The remarkable thing about words is that they seem to make us smarter without words. We're relatively instinctual creatures. I think of a dog, for example. It gets happy, sad, a

What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on this show, that we can all learn to live our lives just a little more intentionally. This is Seth Roberts. Thanks for joining me on Skipping Stones - “Leveling Up.” I was feeling a little overwhelmed the other day, and for the first time in a very long time, I found myself playing a video game. I stayed up until 2:00 AM playing that stupid ga

What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on this show, that we can all learn to live our lives just a little more intentionally. This is Seth Roberts. Thanks for joining me on Skipping Stones - “Don't Let What You Have Keep You from What You Want.” I wonder sometimes if we're failing in life because we're trying too hard to protect the wrong things. Like is our fixation on avoiding fin

Inscribed on the Temple of Apollo in Delphi is the aphorism Know thyself. There are a lot of things worth knowing in this world, but knowing ourselves may be one of the most helpful of them all. It sounds so easy to figure yourself out from the time we are children. We're proud to announce our preferences and our strengths to each other. We all seem to think we know who we are, but in my experience, who we are is never so simple as saying. I like X, Y, Z, or I'm good at ya

What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on this show, that we can all learn to live our lives just a little more intentionally. This is Seth Roberts. Thanks for joining me on Skipping Stones - “You Have to Be Afraid.” Fear is the only real adversary we have in life. And in a way, it's the only thing you will ever have to face. But ironically, I think it's also the gateway to paradise.

If you have the luxury of being able to go on a journey of self-discovery in order to find yourself, I think you can count yourself amongst some of the more privileged of the world. For a lot of people, life doesn't really give them any choices of who to be. Finding yourself is irrelevant. When you're too busy staying alive to sit and ponder it.