Recently I was listening to a podcast on which the host is known for being a bit ‘radical’ in her thinking. She pushes boundaries and questions things that most of us have accepted as normal and the way the world works — which is concerning in itself. I like her and I...
Apparently Gen Z has 2.7 seconds of attention span, way shorter than previous generations, a comparable is in 2004 attentions spans were 2.5 minutes. When my daughter was born, I began to lose my ability to focus. The lack of sleep made me unable to concentrate on...
I was considered the black sheep of my family, which always confounded me. I believe it was because I didn't follow suit, I pushed against convention and believed in systems that didn't exist. I would resist against and be defiant. I would go after the things I wanted...
I distinctly remember the stairs in my house as a teenager — it’s where my mom and I would fight. Where she would yell, and I would stand yelling back. One time I was trying to protect my sisters from her wild outrage. I had one upstairs and one downstairs and stayed...
Nothing is for certain, it’s all a mystery. This life is a mystery and we get to choose how we experience the symphony of emotions and feelings. We’ve all battled in our own darkness, struggled with our demons, and yet that doesn’t mean we see the world as dark and...
If you listen to the news you’ll know that there’s a lot of chatter about recession and what we should be doing and thinking about. I listen to the news regularly and throughout the last three years I’ve really come to see how even well-intentioned hosts can fixate on...
When I was in my twenties, I had a girlfriend who was distraught about turning 25. She felt old and imagined she’d be in a much different place in her life than she was. I was confused; we were in the prime of life, young enough to play hard but old enough to make...
I get defensive when someone tells me I’m controlling, in part because this is an area of deep work for me. When I hear it, I fall into having disgusted feelings about myself. Mainly that I’m a bad human and no one is going to want to be around someone who's...
In 2006 I led a three-month expedition in the Yukon and Alaska. It was a truly epic trip (and I don’t use the word ‘epic’ freely). We backpacked for the first month in the mountains, and were later met with a float plane and switched gear for a month of...
Do you genuinely want to create change in the world, or do you want to spread your fear and foster distrust? If we want to to connect with policymakers or find ways to become either a policymaker or someone who has the influential thoughts and ideas that policy...