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Stop Arguing
It takes two to argue. If one party declines to engage, the argument stops.
J.J. Richardson
Mar 86 min read
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The Great Sameness
Most movies are eerily similar to other movies. Nearly all romantic movies are the same story.
J.J. Richardson
Jan 15 min read
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The Wisdom of Stoicism
Would you want the people around you to treat you with wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance?
J.J. Richardson
Oct 25, 20246 min read
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The Sounds of Music
What do symphonic musical instruments sound like?
J.J. Richardson
Apr 6, 20242 min read
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Top-10 Pop Songs Ever
Here is my top-10 list of pop songs ever. But first, I’ll provide you with the criteria I used to select these songs.
J.J. Richardson
Jan 14, 20234 min read
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Top-3 Teachers
William Joseph Clabby, Dorothy Jean Worthy, and Robert E. Heninger.
J.J. Richardson
Aug 25, 202210 min read
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Dry Humor to Wet Your Whistle
The greatest benefit of dry humor is you get to skip the awkward, unnatural machinations of ordinary joke-telling.
J.J. Richardson
Aug 4, 20227 min read
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How to Be an Ideal Parent
How can we manage the task of raising children over a twenty-year span when it seems no one knows for sure how to do it?
J.J. Richardson
Jul 25, 202214 min read
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Sincerity
How can we impart knowledge, wisdom, and kindness to our relatives, friends, neighbors, and coworkers, without sincerity?
J.J. Richardson
Apr 4, 20226 min read
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Ideal Pace
To keep a steady pace, you must keep an unsteady pace.
J.J. Richardson
Dec 29, 20215 min read
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Patient Persuasion
Central to all human interaction
is persuasion.
J.J. Richardson
Dec 6, 20215 min read
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Low Self-esteem
At some point most of us learn that bullies are weak people. We learn they’re not so tough once we’ve had enough and finally confront them.
J.J. Richardson
Oct 28, 20216 min read
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Ideologue
I long for persuasion over coercion, teaching over indoctrination, and example over cancellation.
J.J. Richardson
Sep 24, 202110 min read
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Procrastination
Rest assured, procrastination is not about laziness or lack of self-control.
J.J. Richardson
Sep 21, 20215 min read
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Advice for Engaged Couples
Here is the most important and concise list of principles I can find for young people considering marriage.
J.J. Richardson
Aug 26, 20213 min read
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What is a Conservative?
The modern conservative movement is in line with the liberal movement of the 1960s.
J.J. Richardson
Jul 23, 202115 min read
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The Best Mother
I learned over the years that our mother wasn't the meanest mother in the word, but the best.
J.J. Richardson
Jun 20, 20218 min read
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Plastic Recycling
It didn’t take me more than a half-hour of casual Internet research to understand why we’re not recycling plastics like we wish we could.
J.J. Richardson
May 16, 20214 min read
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The Assumption Mark
The rules of English grammar provide us with question marks, exclamation marks, and quotation marks, but no assumption mark.
J.J. Richardson
Apr 6, 20212 min read
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The Future of Storytelling
Reciting tales has been a part of human life from the earliest discovered cave drawings until the present day.
J.J. Richardson
Mar 12, 20213 min read
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Copy That
In our lives do we seek to personify the attributes of the Great Creator or the Great Copier?
J.J. Richardson
Mar 2, 20212 min read
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Date Your Spouse Regularly
Most of the time, your life is how you want it to be. You are the reason your life is the way it is.
J.J. Richardson
Dec 14, 20204 min read
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Role of a Just Government
Books written on the proper role of government fill entire library shelves. One could study the wisdom of the world’s greatest political...
J.J. Richardson
Oct 31, 202010 min read
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Top-7 Villains
Why am I having difficulty picking ten villains? I believe it's because fiction must be entertaining, and that includes its villains.
J.J. Richardson
Jul 22, 20206 min read
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