It’s logical, really: Life is happening out there, not in our heads. Strokes of genius usually come when we’re not staring down the problem. Our bodies physically respond with cortisol when we turn a circumstance into a problem. Cortisol is the hormone...
After experiencing Splash House festival for the first time in Palm Springs, I felt connected to the festival music culture. People are dressed crazy, flirting everywhere, and dancing in various states of consciousness. They’re pausing to take care of each...
Look at Koi fish for 2 minutes in a meditative fashion. That’s it. For those of us who still have to-do lists popping up while we’re looking at the koi fish (or we just don’t have any nearby): Monks used riddles to confound their minds. They...
After I reached my first big-life-goal, comparison and busyness had me take my career (and myself) a little too seriously. An Aesop fable and French parable remind me why I create in the first place — to play in life as a regular human. Three months ago, I...
After struggling to finish creative projects, I’ve felt caught under the spell of a perpetually unfocused brain. I would begin one project after another, experimenting but building nothing substantial. Right before despairing my circular results, two stories on...
Sadness, anger, longing, vexation… who has time for those? When I started this blog, the familiar smog blew through a few times; “I have an impossibly long way to go.” This frustration, or “The Dip,” as Seth Godin calls it,...
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