This segment will explore simple and practical ways to master the ever present challenges of life. We shall examine how to use our own inner strength in combination with the external environment for the purpose of finding happiness and peace in a world full of confusing circumstances. We shall tease out how to confront fear,  dissatisfaction, doubt  misery, and a whole range of negative emotions.

One of the secrets of success is the ability to remain calm under pressure in order to respond from a place of reason instead of emotions. Persons who succumb to erratic feelings tend to spend their lives apportioning blames where they should be introspective; instead attributing their failures to friends, enemies, children, spouses, witches, satan; indeed anything but their own choices. These are persons who spend their precious time looking for magical systems which they believe would guarantee them a life without problems.

However, real intelligence is the ability to chose happiness despite the hardships, disappointments, and the carcasses of unfulfilled dreams most humans have to deal with. Adversity, conspiracy, failure, hunger,  illness, loneliness, loss are an integral part of life on earth, and the essence of seeking knowledge is to be able to remain happy despite these challenges. It’s not good enough that most people acquire knowledge for the sake of it, for it is a waste of effort and time. The difference between the adept and the curiosity seeker is the use of knowledge.

Wisdom is the application of knowledge, and this segment is where we jointly string both together.