Today, I was out on the links playing eighteen holes with a couple of friends. I wasn’t playing my best – a few bad long game shots can really add up, especially when about ten…
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How To Engage
A couple of blog posts ago, I defined the Impresario as someone who engages with life. It can really be anyone, regardless of whether that person identifies with herself as an “Artist” or not. If…
Proof of God
Sometimes I have to remind myself how little my thoughts have to do with reality. And, of course, when I’m tired, my thoughts have even less to do with reality than usual. It can be…
The Secret to Life
Here’s the secret to life: become world class at everything you do. I big problem I’ve faced in the past is being overwhelmed: looking around at everything I not only need to do, but want…
Creative Maturity
Before I moved out to Raleigh, North Carolina, I was convinced that happiness lay over the sea. You see, I really wanted to move to Eastern Europe – Bucharest, Romania, to be precise. And a…
What My Cardio Workout Taught Me About “Engaging With Life”
Today in the gym, I noticed something interesting. Typically, my heart rate speeds up when I first do cardio – particularly if I am doing a strenuous exercise or series of exercises, or if I…
Living Philosophers, Yogis, and Free Jazz
Kenny Werner is a jazz pianist, composer, educator, author, and mystic, and one of my favorite people, although I haven’t yet met him (working on that). Last night, I stumbled across a YouTube of one…
“Dirty Laundry” Or Scented Sheets?: A Personal Life in the Artist’s World
In a conversation with a Duke University PhD student a few days ago, I brought up the question of the importance of a Personal Life in the Artist’s world. I was espousing that nowadays, the Artist…
The Woodchuck Game
In my last post, The Other Fifteen, I promised I would go into some examples in my own life where experiencing Resistance pointed to the thing I most needed to do. In War Of Art, Stephen Pressfield…