In the 2018 Cohen Brothers’ film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a rugged pioneer (played by Tom Waits) enters an idyllic scene and pans for gold. I really enjoyed watching this vignette, not only because…
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Practice is not always necessary.
If I am perfectly happy with my skills I already have, and am confident I can retain them without practicing, there is no need for me to practice. If I find more joy resonating in…
What Meaning Means
The difference between a meaningful life and a meaningless life is Action. Action being taken, specifically, towards a connection with something greater than ourselves. If, in the moment, no particular Action is being taken to experience…
Information vs. Innovation
Real innovation comes from having the courage to sound like yourself. There’s a catch, though. Part of sounding like yourself is knowing what “you” sounds like. And you can’t know that until you listen to…
Why Intimacy Is More Important Than Music
There is a lot of Music, but not a lot of true human connection, in the world. Open a streaming app, like Spotify or Pandora, or an online media store, like iTunes. Go to a…
Should You Quit Your Job?
In Cal Newport’s So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest For Work You Love, he provides an algorithm to be used in order to find out whether you should quit…
Reaching A Higher Level: Understand That Life Has “Layers” And “Seasons”
In order to reach a higher level at any Art, skill, Craft, Vision, stage of life, or Way of Being than one is currently at, one must have the discipline to “chunk away” at it,…
Beware of “Should”
The word “should” is more of a sentiment than a word. A golf ball flubs into the trees. “I should have kept my knees bent on the follow through!” A business investment tanks. “I should…
Social Media: Tool or Threat?
Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You, was interviewed by James Altucher on the podcast The James Altucher Show. In the conversation, Newport brings up a concept called “mental residue,” which is the phenomenon…
Getting Better Means Never Stopping
Somewhere in Daniel Coyle’s The Talent Code, he reveals that all it would take to get less good at something would be no more than thirty days, or just around a month’s time. Even the world’s most…