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How to Lead: For Sociopaths

October 26, 2023 by Joe Gray in Comedy, Business, Communication, Philosophy, Personal Development, Psychology, Rants, Relationships, Retail Perspective, Thoughts, Leadership

Do you want to work your way to the top for the sole purpose of doing less and dictating more? Is status and power important to you but you don't really want to do much? Then you're in the right place. 

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October 26, 2023 /Joe Gray
leadership, sarcasm, howtolead, leading, leader, business, relationships, retail, blog, opinions, corporate, sociopaths, communication, management, manager, customerservice, CEO, psychology, thoughts, rant, hierarchy
Comedy, Business, Communication, Philosophy, Personal Development, Psychology, Rants, Relationships, Retail Perspective, Thoughts, Leadership

Nihilism Doesn’t Exist

June 03, 2023 by Joe Gray in Communication, Cultural Musings, Epistemology, Language/Linguistics, Philosophy, Rants, Thoughts

Nihilism doesn’t exist. It is a paradox. If there is no meaning then the word nihilism can’t have any meaning and therefore nihilism doesn’t exist. If nihilism has a meaning then meaning exists and nihilism exists only as a paradoxical concept.

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June 03, 2023 /Joe Gray
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Communication, Cultural Musings, Epistemology, Language/Linguistics, Philosophy, Rants, Thoughts

Forgotten Decisions

October 29, 2020 by Joe Gray in Consciousness, Free Will, Language/Linguistics, Personal Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Rants, Thoughts, Whimsies

There's no reason to think that people are able to remember everything they think about. We are constantly going through internal ruminations, whether we are paying attention to them or not. I don't think that the internal monologue is something that we turn on and off at will or consciously. I'm not sure if the stream of consciousness that is verbal is always running but when it is running our focus on it fluctuates. Sometimes one can really focus on observing the random thoughts that happen inside the mind. Sometimes one can direct the stream and try to focus where it goes. Sometimes one is completely unable to grasp the internal messages.

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October 29, 2020 /Joe Gray
body, brain, consciousness, determinism, development, freewill, language, lifestyle, memory, mind, philosophy, psychology, rant, streamofconsciousness, streamsofconsciousness, thoughts, will, will power
Consciousness, Free Will, Language/Linguistics, Personal Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Rants, Thoughts, Whimsies

NOT Conscious

July 17, 2020 by Joe Gray in Consciousness, Epistemology, Philosophy, Psychology, Rants, Thoughts, Whimsies

The hardest thing to do is convince someone you're not conscious. People see consciousness everywhere. They apply it to wind and rain. Mountains and rodents. We can personify anything including the universe and god and gods and vegetables. We tell stories of eggs that fall off of castles and bunnies that have tea parties. Everything is a metaphor for ourselves and we are everyone.

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July 17, 2020 /Joe Gray
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Consciousness, Epistemology, Philosophy, Psychology, Rants, Thoughts, Whimsies

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