Ideas are free, execution is priceless.

We live in a culture of more. And so, we convince ourselves that we need a lot of things. Our mantra is, well, there is always more out there, so why not acquire it? When the reality is, we don’t actually need that much. Pretty much everything beyond food, shelter, water, clothing and relationships isn’t really a need, it’s a want. And that’s perfectly fine. Wanting things is good….

Are you free enough to risk being seen by other people? Most of us are not. At least, not when we’re young. It takes years of working on ourselves and working with others before we reach that level of comfort with self. This explains why wearing a nametag was so awkward for the first few years. It’s not that people were suddenly noticing me, it’s that people were actually…

Writer’s block has been a widely documented problem throughout history. Everyone from authors to cartoonists to songwriters to magicians have shared their struggles with the temporary loss or ability to continue producing work. Many of whom were driven to madness. This problem goes back many centuries, but the official condition was first described in the late forties. Bergler’s psychiatry book studied writers who suffered from it. Bergler spent years…

Buber said before there is a self, there is an other. A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human, and to become human is what the individual has been created for. And so, he believed that the path to divinity was through human contact. This approach to interpersonal connection is deeply spiritual, and probably too mushy for most. But his theory is also highly biological. Pinsky,…

Culture isn’t who we are, it’s who we were taught to be. It’s a story. One that we have all accepted and agreed to tell, whether we realize it or not. This phenomenon makes culture the most enormous force of persuasion that exists in the world. And that’s not necessarily a good thing. Because if you look back to the past fifty years, our culture has completely indoctrinated people…