The photographer’s job is to capture. They get a pass on intrusion, as does the scientist on dangerous experimentation. The maker needs no excuse to have skin in the game but feels free to explore an aura of invisibility that demands to connect the seemingly unconnected. We do things that make us bolder, including our […]
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Following our external compass
The psychic costs of living in a place with gloomy weather or having trite friends is scarring. Our surroundings have a significant impact on how we think. That’s not to say if you want to be an entrepreneur you have to move to Silicon Valley or Hollywood if you want to be a star. Culture […]
Writing all the time
Some of us ”sweat the night into words,” the poet Bernard Spencer wrote in his poem “Night-Time: Starting to Write.” Morning or night, day time or lunchtime, it really doesn’t matter when you write. A note, a recording, a scribble — we write it down to remember it now and for later. Everything goes in […]
Visualizing the practice
Visualize the practice, not the result. Actions have goals built into them, giving you a better chance at achieving what you want. Success happens to the idea, not at the force of aim. Because it’s all about the sustained head work and heart work it takes to get there. “Don’t aim at success-the more you […]
The best music to help you focus
Music is a performance-enhancement drug. There’s a reason athletes listen to songs on repeat to pump them up before games. But music’s effect on studying, writing, or doing office work is equally profound. Music is known to increase your productivity by sharpening your focus and putting your brain into a flow state. However, it takes the […]
Thinking about questions
The more absurd questions, the better. It’s as if people hold back their inquisitiveness to avoid the pedestal of ridicule. Shying away from raising your hand backlashes over time. Playing it safe merely postpones fear, submerging us into a habit of permanent hesitation that flinches instead of flourishes. The infinitely curious never left school as […]
Trust the routine
The writer, blogger, or boxer must always keep in training. The artist or athlete can’t wait for the muse to inject them with productivity serum. Routine is much more compelling than inspiration, which is fickle, comes in flashes, and rarely sticks. On the flipside of consistency, is also imperfection. The practician not only faces the […]
Thinking without thinking 🤔
Work is the practice of gathering string. But it is the empty mind that weaves experience, knowledge, and ideas altogether. The apple may have hit Newton’s head, but his insights into gravity were brewing all along. There is no such thing as Eureka, just the gradual harmonization of distilled moments that become apparent when we least expect […]
How to close the gap between near and far
The basis for life is all interpretation, an internal chatter that either zaps positive momentum or dwells on negativity and drains the well. For starters, your attitude should weave together what optimizes you rather than what conflicts with the experience of inner freedom. For example, instead of looking at your day job as a means […]