An essay responding to Dr. Mariano Sigman’s semantic-analysis research on when human introspection emerged, arguing that the capacity for inner reflection long predated the writings of roughly 500-400 BC and that introspection remains a deliberate choice.
An essay on self-sabotage, exploring why humans carry both a drive for growth and an inner voice pulling toward mediocrity, weighing evolutionary and psychological explanations and concluding that whichever tendency we feed grows stronger.
An essay challenging the claim that willpower cannot be willed, citing Libet’s experiments and arguing that the will is a trainable muscle, with graduated exercises from the marshmallow test to harder tests of self-discipline.