Sometimes we imagine that we are in a car that has a mind of its own. We feel stressed, anxious, confused, and all these other emotions. Those emotions can lead us to take action before we even think …
You can always make a deposit
The other day I was listening to The School Sucks Podcast and the host brought up the metaphor of health as a bank account. Physical and mental health decisions either add or subtract from your …
Don’t Forget to Do What You Can
I was having a conversation yesterday with a good friend about the state of the world. He has been reading and watching a lot of stuff about life in the 1940's, and the suffering that so many people …
Travel University | Organization 101
The skills you learn in school and college are only abstractly related to real life. If you zoom out and focus on the actual skills you are learning from age five to twenty-one, it is not math, …
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Do Good Views Actually Make You Feel Good?
People talk about how a view of the mountains, or a view of the ocean is grounding. The typical abstraction is that it is something so massive, imposing, and powerful that it makes your problems feel …
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Gratitude Not Guilt
Every morning at 7:30 AM, as I pulled my car out of my apartment building I would see people digging through the garbage in the dumpsters. I would look at then and wonder; how can I find my life so …