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Who are you, really?
There are actually two parts to the question.
The You: Who You Present to the World
There is a âyouâ that interacts with the world; that talks to the barista and comforts the chi...
How to Stand Firm in a Chaotic World
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life. - Hunter S T...
Iâve been gone for a while. I regularly travel the Great American Southwest, and this year has so far been no exception: 4,000 miles through California, Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah.
I spent time ...
Freeze this moment
A little bit longer
Make each sensation
A little bit stronger
Experience slips awayâŠ
â Neil Peart, âTime Stand Still,â Hold Your Fire, Rush, 1987
The Professor (IYKYK) commanded my attent...
Sometimes the most important messages come with the fewest words.
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Something miraculous just happened to me.
Like a song in a dream, it must be captured quickly, lest...
What allostatic load taught me about ambition, burnout, and the hidden cost of high performance.âš
I have been a CEO three times, a college president twice, built and ran a multi-million dollar, multipl...
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There you sit, my arch-nemesis.
But really, you are no such thing. Youâre just a guitar. My guitar; one of a few.Â
Perhaps one of the reasons I avoid you until I can...
New Yearâs resolutions: the promises we make ourselves for change in the coming calendar year. Everybody does it. And everybody breaks these promises, because we all know that New Yearâs resolutions a...
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Life is full of questions, all day every day: what to eat, where to go, what to watch, who to listen to, what to buy, what to believe.Â
In my ex...
Whatâs really underneath everything.
This essay is different from my usual writing. Iâm a couple of weeks away from the end of my 67th year and not feeling inclined to waste time. Iâm showing up to do ...
In 1888, Friedrich Nietzsche published Twilight of the Idols, in which he wrote: âWas mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stĂ€rker.â (What doesnât kill me makes me stronger.)
This sentiment was a critical p...
The What-If Mindshift: Why your brain defaults to fearâand how to train it to imagine opportunity.
âYou can âwhat-ifâ yourself to death,â she said.
She was right, of course. Iâm an INFP, a first-born, a...
Nearly half of the polled population of the US reports that they are sleep deprived. Look around you: every other person you can see is likely suffering from a lack of restful sleep. Part of this huge...
You are on a long journey and you finally reach your destination. Now what, now that you have arrived? Should you continue?
Youâve planned this adventure for a long time. Weeks or months; maybe most of...
It was my first job, when I was 14.
I had reached a plateau in my playing and knew I needed some formal lessons. There was no YouTube back then, and the guitar teacher I had for six months when I was e...
