Recesses of the Mind

Life is a Grocery Store


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 Nietzsche says that

“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting."

I am a student of Economics and Finance, and also a student of Humanities and Philosophy, hoping to find the bridge between markets and humanity while avoiding the abyss of nihilism.  But I've been having life dilemmas about how I can balance business and ethics. 

In this podcast I talk about how I've managed my life dilemmas with Simone de Beauvoir's Duality of Humanity, Nietzche's Rope Analogy, and Villanova's Dr. Thomas Smith's Grocery Store analogy. Because life is not a marathon; it's a grocery store.

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Recesses of the MindBy Jiefo Wang