Last year, I heard an interesting metaphor from clinical psychologist Michael Yapko that has stuck with me ever since: 

He talks about two types of people: some who fall into a ditch and work hard to dig their way out, and some who fall into a ditch and start...

The artist Cleo Wade has a beautifully succinct poem: 

You want love?

Be love. 

You want light?

Be light. 

There’s a wonderful kernel of truth in her words that points to the importance of embodying the kind of environment we wish to create.

If you want kindness,...

“The process bears the fruit” — Sir James Dyson

Rupi Kaur published her poetry on Tumblr and eventually Instagram for two years before self-publishing Milk & Honey in 2014. 
Beeple produced a picture every day for fourteen years before selling his “Everyday — The First 5000 Days” non-fungible token (NFT)...

It's my last week in Bloomington, Indiana before I relocate, and it's been a very rich and insightful experience to say the least. 

The knowledge that I would soon leave town has managed to punctuate virtually every experience imaginable: 

The coffee I drank from my favorite coffee shop...

“It’s not that I’m so smart, It’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein

Around 1978, James Dyson came up with the idea of using cyclonic separation to build a better vacuum. 

Dyson would go on to build not a handful, not dozens, not hundreds, but...

During some of his meditations on the Waking Up app, Sam Harris poses the following questions: “what if there were no problems to solve? What would that experience be like?” 

I’ve asked myself these questions while dealing with some particularly stressful problems, including a personal health scare last March...

A common pitfall when trying to adopt a new habit is sinking all of your energy into your efforts, only to find yourself burnt out and unmotivated a few days later. 

In the same way the laws of physics prevent a vehicle from instantly going from 0 to 60...

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The only direction that change can be enacted on is the future. 

Recognizing and accepting this truth can serve as a kind of liberation, permitting you to relinquish persistent thoughts about past events, things you could have said differently, or done...

It’s Monday morning, you’re in a meeting, and your colleague says something that you think is inappropriate and frustrating. 

What do you do next? 

You could ramp up your frustration, perhaps initiating some internal commentary along the lines of “wow, I can’t imagine a worse start to the...

The American Psychological Association has a page dedicated to the topic of multitasking
.  The main takeaway: it’s not the productivity hack that many think it is. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. 

Frequently switching tasks takes time and energy, it makes you more prone to error, and it results...