self-reflection

  • In this blog, Georgiev tries to show what happens when love, neediness, and envy start wearing each other’s clothes. We all have the freedom to fire our emotional bullets, but none of us get to decide where they land—or what comes back. He thought he understood the difference between needing someone and loving them. Then,…

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  • What if love has less to do with how we feel and more to do with what we are willing to sacrifice? Through Homeric epics, Ivo translates something we keep forgetting: heroes are rarely the people who get everything right. They are the ones who, often far too late, recognise what matters and act on…

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  • In this post, Georgiev opens with Jimmy Carr’s claim, “I don’t believe in generations,” then follows the thread through Peter Turchin’s counter‑elites and into Aristotle’s theory of emotion. He argues that categories flatten people, while real understanding requires noticing how judgement forms through experience, feeling, and self‑interest. Moving from modern commentary to ancient rhetoric, the…

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  • In this article, Georgiev points to the fact that nobody teaches us how to become ourselves. Rather, they only teach us how they survived becoming themselves. For him, everything after that is translation. Today’s stream of consciousness follows someone he calls Bear Boy – the Stranger within the Stranger – and the invisible inheritance we…

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  • Every man imagines the man he wants to become, but few are those who sit long enough with the man they already are. In this blog, Georgiev struggles with what he’s been thinking about lately: whether masculinity is ambition, sacrifice, discipline, freedom — or simply accepting that life doesn’t always unfold the way we imagined.…

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  • Caught between Machiavellian realism and poetic idealism, Georgiev wrestles with the paradox of wanting to change the world while knowing how stubbornly it resists change. He reflects on the dangers of both naivety and cynicism, ultimately embracing the identity of a “pragmatic dreamer”—someone who dares to imagine better, but builds with eyes wide open. The…

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