Why dreaming with your eyes wide open has only one way in — and why that way is the opposite of everything you would normally do Notice, for a moment, how much of your day you do not actually remember. The commute that happened while you were elsewhere. The meal eaten while you answered messages. […]
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Why ordinary life turns vivid the moment you stop reaching past it — what your communion with the divinely mundane gives you back There is a moment that visits you sometimes, if you are paying a certain kind of attention, and it makes no sense on the surface. The steam off the coffee, the weight
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Why the more you walk, the less you arrive — and how being over doing becomes a lived fact instead of a slogan There is an accounting I have been keeping for years now, and it refuses to add up the way a life is supposed to. The more I walk — the more faithfully
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Seven micro-actions I return to through the day — and why staying focused, calm and alert turns out to be something that happens, not something I do I want to be honest about the title before we go further, because it promises something I am going to partly take back. These seven small things do
I maintain that there are only two kinds of education. I respectively call them by the following, plain, yet also somewhat quite descriptive names: Training And Practice Let’s take Training first. Training refers to learning and developing skill, competence, knowledge and expertise in a particular activity or, if you like, area of focus. This can
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In my previous blog post, I argued that your life’s number one purpose is to constantly learn new things, put them in practice and, consequently, grow to your next best version. At some point in this article, I referred to what I believe is a key skill for every human being to exercise, in every
