Jan
20
Can Doing Less Help You Shine Like a Superstar?
Just practicing more doesn’t help if you aren’t learning valuable lessons
6 min read
Habits
These posts cover the tremendous power of habits. We are what we repeatedly do, and we become what we set our minds to doing via habits.
Jan
09
Is There Pleasure and Profit in Walking to Places?
Is it because we're pressed for time that we don't want to get out of our cars? Or because we don't want to walk?
5 min read
Dec
09
I'm Going to Share my Secret to Success
This simple concept explains why the world is divided into an elite one percent, a highly effective 10 percent, and everyone else.
6 min read
Oct
05
In Strangers' Living Rooms
Every time I fly, the distance I contemplate driving to avoid flying goes up.
4 min read
Sep
30
What Would You Do With 1,000 Hours? (Newsletter 066)
If I was following my own advice, I would say look to the underlying value of things. What is it you really want to accomplish?
6 min read
Sep
08
Be Patient
All good things come to those who wait.
1 min read
Sep
06
The Parable of the Stinky Shoe
What surprised me most of all in this city of wonders were the reactions of the people. Knowing its reputation, I was nervous how the city dwellers would respond to another bumbling tourist.
7 min read
Aug
30
Peripatetics (by Panagiotis Perysinakis)
Walking became more than an excuse for physical exercise. It became an effortless and very natural exercise in meditation. And it proved a soothing ritual in helping me prepare to face, and then face and process the exodus of my father from this life.
4 min read
Jun
10
How's Your Moral Hygiene? (Newsletter 050)
When it comes to achieving good health, people have followed physical hygiene practices for over a century with good results, dietary hygiene practices for half that time with decidedly mixed results, and mental hygiene practices for a few decades with promising results.
6 min read
Jun
07
Americans Already Work Two Extra Full-Time Jobs
No matter what we are doing, we are now typically simultaneously consuming media in some form.
3 min read