When you show your vulnerability, that’s when you know you’re on the right track. That’s when a real connection’s made between you and someone else. But there’s 2 different ways to show vulnerability – the good way and the bad (and annoying). Question #1 What’s the difference between: a) Anne Lamott talking about how she hit the bottle hard and almost…
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I don’t live my life by any specific sayings or soundbites. One, because I can’t remember them exactly as they were said and two, living life in all the ways you want to can’t be distilled into one or two pull quotes. But one thing that I do try to live by is ‘optimal minimal’, which is a truncated version of…
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(The full, non-chopped off version of the above quote): ‘Inspiration is a word used by people who aren’t really doing anything. I go into my office everyday that I’m in Brighton and I work. Whether I fell like it or not is irrelevant.’ – Nick Cave How many times have you heard someone say something was inspiring or inspirational? A person? A…
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The American national anthem’s played before almost every game in the National Hockey League. But sometimes there’s not even one American competing or coaching in the actual game. So what’s the point? The point is there doesn’t always have to be a point. Taking a moment just to calm yourself, be present in the physical place you actually are, and to…
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…there is no better slogan than theirs. Just do It. Don’t overthink something. You got something to do? Do it. Don’t fuck around. My wife told me yesterday that I’ve helped her get more things done lately. Things in the past that she’d procrastinate over, put off, do pieces and bits of, and then maybe eventually do them. She might’ve…
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There should be a word in the English language that slots in between learning and knowing. I’ve been wanting to coin a phrase for the last while. To be one of those people who coins phrases. Tim Ferriss coined ‘Lifestyle Design’, Pat Riley coined ‘Three-peat’. This could be my chance. People once said, ‘I know that the world is flat,’…
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“If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters–don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself.” – EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 13a (from The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday) I’ve always been bad at conversation. If I have to keep a conversation going with someone I’m not comfortable with, I’m in Strugglesville. But…