Scotty Hendricks

Scotty Hendricks

Contributing Writer

scotty hendricks

Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don't truly want to obtain what we think we desire.
Zen masters often have strikingly different ideas about how to live and attain enlightenment.
Albert Einstein played a mean violin.
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