Art Modeling: The Ultimate Willpower Training
Yeah, you read that right: Art modeling will train your willpower real hard. Alright, a few things to explain, hear me out. First of all, yes, I have recently started […]
Genteel Skills
A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation
Two weeks ago I wrote an article on a very specific epiphany that I obtained through meditation. And while what I realized is good enough advice in and of itself, […]
Meditation And The Pursuit of Happiness
On this website, one of the major goals is of course self-improvement: turning yourself from the schlubby, boring, acne encrusted loser you were born as and becoming the muscular, swaggering […]
What We Can Learn From The Art Of War
The Art of War by Sun Tzu: if not the first treatise ever written on war as a formal practice, it is certainly the most famous, both in the hoary […]
Why Does Modern Poetry Suck?
Sadly, Mr. McGonagall is a better poet than most working today. Modern poetry fucking blows—take a look at the allegedly lyrical flotsam that spewed forth at Obama’s 2nd inauguration if […]
The Internet Is A Mighty Tool
(The featured image…man, this is probably the first time in 2 decades anyone has alluded to the phrase “information superhighway”. But I digress) The modern world sure sucks, doesn’t it? […]
How to Multitask Effectively
(Excuse the delay, my roommate’s pet rabbit chewed through our ethernet cord). Multitasking is a term that we hear a lot of nowadays: there’s plenty of websites and publications that […]
New on ROK: Charisma Part 3
My newest piece on Return of Kings: The third and last article in my “charismatic trilogy”, in which I explain the four types of charisma, and why the shittiest people […]
How To Project Your Voice
Yes, I know I did an article vaguely like this on Return of Kings a long time ago, but there’s more I can say about the subject: Despite the fact […]
The Masculine Scribe
Shock and awe—Larsen Halleck is something of a poet when he’s not kicking ass and taking names. I understand that new readers may find this surprising, but again, the whole […]