Davood Gozli – Page 7 – Writer, YouTuber, & Reading Group Host

… it is utterly useless to study a great thing like the Franciscan movement while remaining in the modern mood that murmurs against gloomy asceticism. The whole point about St. Francis of Assisi is that he certainly was ascetical and he certainly was not gloomy. Chesterton’s book Saint Francis of Assisi was published in 1923, about two decades after the publication of Heretics (1905) and a decade before the publication of Saint Thomas Aquinas: The…

Writing

Something Else; Someone Else

By Davood Gozli | 17/05/202218/05/2022 by Davood Gozli

Sometimes it is difficult to write because there is something else that needs to be written, something more urgent, more pressing, more alive, and more real. A desire for being expressed, a desire for being written, is a quality of some experiences. Perhaps by giving expression to something that isn’t charged with that desire, we are reminded of the desire and its possible aims. Perhaps this is why writing can be discomforting, because it could…

Time

A Year with Svend Brinkmann’s Book ‘Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life’

By Davood Gozli | 01/04/202202/04/2022 by Davood Gozli

The project of recording a series of videos based on Svend Brinkmann’s book, Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life: Working with Everyday Life Materials, continues. I just posted Part 9. Two more parts remain to be recorded and then the series will come to its conclusion. After updating the Patreon Videos page, I realized I had started working on this series last March–a little over a year ago. The book presents itself as a “survival guide”…

book review Education Psychology in Everyday Life

Review of ‘The Art of Self-Improvement: Ten Timeless Truths’ by Anna K. Schaffner

By Davood Gozli | 26/03/202227/03/2022 by Davood Gozli

Self-help is a tricky subject. Depending on the audience, it can provoke intense sympathy and intense skepticism. A dismissive attitude toward the current self-help culture can point to the lack of substance and depth in the popular material, the deceitful and self-serving “gurus,” the hyper-optimism of followers, the fixation with “positive thinking,” the unrealistic promises, the individualistic bias, and the social-political blindspots. But should the self-help culture–with all its associated ideas and aspirations–be completely dismissed?…

Psychology in Everyday Life

Being with Others

By Davood Gozli | 18/03/202227/03/2022 by Davood Gozli

Connecting to your past, to your history, to your language, to your family, should not be done only for its own sake, or–even worse–for the sake of acquiring the comfort for being with the in-group. Connecting to your history shapes your presence, sharpens it, makes it truthful. That is the justification for pursuing the connections, analogous to why we ought to read history–not for the sake of the past, but for the sake of the…

Reflections on ‘Saint Francis of Assisi’ by G. K. Chesterton

Something Else; Someone Else

A Year with Svend Brinkmann’s Book ‘Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life’

Review of ‘The Art of Self-Improvement: Ten Timeless Truths’ by Anna K. Schaffner

Being with Others